Alberta election 2019: Kenney victory another thorn in side of Trudeau as he seeks re-election GlobePolitics
United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney speaks at a rally before the election, in Sherwood Park, Alta., on Monday April 15, 2019.Now there are not one but two premiers clamouring to defeat Justin Trudeau, openly, directly and noisily.
And it comes at a time in Mr. Trudeau’s tenure when he is no longer succeeding in dominating the national political narrative. Mr. Trudeau has been struggling to impose his own agenda on national politics for many months, since the closing of the NAFTA 2.0 deal last September. Some of his campaign gimmicks were just that. You have to wonder if Mr. Kenney will find a way to back out of the promise to hold a referendum on equalization, since the system was supported by the federal Conservative government in which he served and a referendum won’t do anything except put Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer in a tight spot.
It’s not necessarily a bad thing in itself for Mr. Trudeau to have a few high-profile conservative adversaries. Mr. Scheer doesn’t really have much of a track record or a set of policies yet. So Mr. Trudeau lumps him in with conservative politicians who the left-leaning feel strongly about, such as Mr. Ford.
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