Alberta’s striking teachers should buy some snow boots for the picket lines, because it looks like Premier Danielle Smith is digging in her heels and this could take a while.

Being paid $100,000 a year to teach school sounds plenty fair to plenty of Albertans and the province does not have extra money to spend.

So Smith seems ready for the long-haul .

Premier acted quickly

The premier quickly announced the government is paying parents their money back during the strike.

Less than 12 hours after the Alberta Teachers Association voted 89.5% to reject the government’s contract offer, Smith told parents they would get $30 per day, per student under 12 years old for the duration of the strike.

Parents are paying for schools to be open and teachers to do their jobs, via their taxes. If s

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