EDMONTON—Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has responded to a leaked telephone conversation she had with Calgary pastor Artur Pawlowski in January 2022, reiterating that she has never spoken to anyone with the Alberta Crown Prosecution Service.
Smith issued a news release before the recording was made public, stating, “Later today, in an effort to continue their campaign of defamatory attacks against me and my office staff, the CBC intends to release an article about a conversation I had with an individual named Artur Pawlowski.”