Alberta UCP leadership candidate Danielle Smith is being slammed for false claims you can control cancer so long as it’s before a stage-four diagnosis.
She made the claim while interviewing a naturopath on her podcast last week.
Smith also insinuated if you choose to prevent getting cancer yourself, you’d be saving taxpayer dollars from going to costly medical treatment.
“Once you’ve arrived and got stage-four cancer and there’s radiation and surgery and chemotherapy, that is incredibly expensive intervention — not just for the system, but also expensive in the toll it takes on the body,” Smith said on her podcast.
“But, when you think everything that built up before you got to stage four and that diagnosis, that’s completely within your control and there’s something you can do about that that is different.”
Many people immediately responded on social media. Most of them shared personal anecdotes and questioned how it would be the fault of their loved ones that they got cancer.
Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley also weighed in, tweeting, “let’s actually support cancer patients.”
Let’s actually support cancer patients.
That really shouldn’t be too much to ask of anyone trying to hold Alberta’s highest elected office. #ableg #abhealth
— Rachel Notley (@RachelNotley) July 25, 2022
Smith responded by saying that Notley was politicizing cancer.
“I certainly didn’t expect the NDP to politicize something as serious as cancer,” Smith said in a video uploaded...
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