What sets Alberta’s new premier apart is that he does not accept that he must advance on the current terrain
EDMONTON, ALBERTA — I rarely write about Jason Kenney, one of the most interesting phenomena in Canadian politics, due to the fact that we have been friends for 28 years, long before I was in the seminary or he was in elected office. And the testimony of friends is considered suspect in the columnist business.
What Premier Kenney has done since the early 1990s is to change the parameters of the possible in politics And then he did it when he moved to provincial politics in July 2016 with a plan so bold that no one had ever tried it before. He won the Progressive Conservative leadership in March 2017, despite the best efforts of the remaining husk of that exhausted party to block him. But they were fighting on old ground, and Kenney had moved on to the new. He won the PC leadership with 75 per cent.
That is the past. In the short time since he has been elected, there has been no shortage of voices saying that Kenney will not be able to get Alberta’s oil and gas to international markets because of the political realities in Vancouver and Montreal and Ottawa and Paris and the UN, etc.
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