Kenney just received 51.4% in the leadership vote and has resigned
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Thats the simmering wrath from your base Jason. It cost you tonight,
That’s for harassing, prosecuting and jailing Christian pastors. Promising to never implement the vax passport then spinelessly doing it anyway.
Allowing AHS to fire healthy nurses while they whined about staff shortage and refusing to meet with the Coutts farmers or acknowledging the impact of the provincial mandates on their businesses.
Base will now have to put up with Notley come the next election.
Kenney tried to manage Western alienation, secessionist energies, and Alberta-firewall-styled antipathy for the shitheads in Ottawa / Quebec, but was caltropped by his federalist skew (he is a Canadian patriot first, a proponent for a more independent Alberta second).
If the Wild Rose contingent in the UCP takes charge and campaigns on secessionist rhetoric, they will lose.
What I wonder is who on the bench has sufficient gravitas or name-recognition to hype the vote?
Lastly: the federal conservatives know that it's harder to motivate voters in provinces with conservative premiers / governments during a federal election (i.e. that it's easier to exploit unease under a provincial NDP/Lib kakistocracy), so I doubt the CPC (including Poilievre) will do much to buttress any UCP campaigner moving forward.
Maybe, maybe not.
If the UCP taps talent that can keep Calgary they win.
I was born and raised in Calgary. I love the city. But with sadness in my heart, I can readily admit that it's become another pinko urban hive. Until the Sino-American War resets everyone's expectations, anyone who can win Calgary in a provincial election probably isn't worth their salt.