Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, he is stepping down as leader of the United Conservative Party after the party announced he had won a leadership review with just 51.4 per cent of votes.
Premier Jason Kenney threw Alberta politics into a tailspin on Wednesday when he narrowly won a United Conservative Party leadership review vote only to announce he was quitting the top job anyway.
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says he doesn’t need overwhelming support in a leadership review because the pool of voters has been diluted by thousands of angry members bent on destruction.
Volunteers began checking voter identification on Thursday, May 12, 2022, in a mail-in leadership review of Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and, if so inclined, the public could watch a livestream of the work on the United Conservative Party website.
Vitor Marciano, a longtime Conservative now assisting UCP MLA and Kenney rival Brian Jean, said one major lesson is: Be prepared to design a team that listens to caucus.
Jason Kenney’s arch-foe in caucus took his fight with the Alberta premier to the floor of the legislature on Thursday, May 5, 2022, and received in return a backhanded verbal slap from a cabinet minister.
Premier Jason Kenney says Albertans are unimpressed with the intraparty melodrama of his United Conservative government and adds that, if anything, he has been too soft on dissenters.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau criticized the Alberta government on Tuesday, April 12, 2022, for not addressing the opioid epidemic in ways that have proven to be effective elsewhere.
Emails suggesting a former Alberta justice minister hired a political fixer to pull the phone logs of a reporter to trace her sources show how the province's politics has deteriorated, observers say.