Pollster says Alberta election has been a tale of 'two quite horrible' campaigns
One expert said there's a"lot of anger" going around.Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley and United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney will have a final showdown in the province's imminent election.
A win for Jason Kenney's United Conservatives, as predicted by the polls, means a return to the right-centre for Alberta, its traditional home since the middle of the last century.Notley ran on her record of continuing to build Alberta through the lean times of low oil prices. "Mr. Kenney is not being forthright with Albertans when he talks about the idea that his party accepts and supports people in the LGBTQ community. They do not," said Notley, at the mid-campaign leaders debate.
All of this was done, Kenney said, to get the Trans Mountain pipeline expanded to the B.C. coast. But while the feds ultimately bought the line to keep it alive, it remains tied down in consultations and legal red tape.United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney speaks during a campaign rally in Edmonton on April 12, 2019.
Political scientist Duane Bratt said Kenney's plan resonates right now with a province hit by hard times and feeling hard done by.Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley makes a campaign stop in Calgary on April 12, 2019.Kenney has had to play defence against so-called bozo eruptions by some of his candidates.
Mark Smith, the caucus education critic, apologized but did not quit the campaign for an anti-abortion and homophobic sermon delivered years earlier.
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