Kenney’s easy win creates uncertainty on the grander stage of Confederation. He ran largely against Justin Trudeau rather than Rachel Notley, and this seems to have worked pretty darned well
In the end it was as written. The ultra-hard final numbers in the Alberta election, as faithful readers have been warned, are going to take a while to arrive. But it became apparent shockingly early on Tuesday night that the United Conservative Party would secure a comfortable majority in the Alberta legislature, completing Jason Kenney’s journey from right-wing unity schemer to right-wing unity premier.
Some people have characterized this election as a sort of zombie war between old Progressive Conservative identities: Peter Lougheed and Ralph Klein . This isn’t quite how things worked out. Which makes sense, since Rachel Notley’s father was Peter Lougheed’s greatest domestic adversary and Jason Kenney was arguably one of Klein’s.
It was a strange election. The damaged Alberta economy is at the top of everyone's mind, and yet economic management played little explicit role in the campaignIn any event, the 2019 campaigning ended up being about emotional stances above all — almost as if Alberta politics had been captured by a clique of spin doctors from every corner of Confederation, resulting in a general, unstoppable outbreak of furious tarantism.
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