Jason Markusoff's Alberta Politics Insider for April 4: Bracing for wonkishness, a debate-watchers drinking game, and more
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With all that pooh-poohing aside, the first clash between these two formidable politicians should be fascinating. What Notley has to do: Whether you believe New Democrats are still far behind, or is closing in after a rough two weeks for their rival, Thursday may offer their best hopes of definitively turning things their way. Stakes are high for Notley to give yet another sterling performance—but also to somehow rattle Kenney, a notoriously disciplined and methodical campaigner.
“Folks just don’t see an Alberta they recognize in Mr. Kenney’s UCP. They don’t see today’s Alberta, they see the Sky Palace on the shores of the Lake of Fire.” If you get those references, you may chuckle. If their too inside-baseball for most people, she’s got a problem. Kenney’s olive branch to Indigenous communities One wouldn’t expect a former Reform MP and head of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation to propose a Crown corporation that picks business winners and losers, but sometimes Jason Kenney surprises us. He promised a UCP government would create an Aboriginal Opportunities Corp. that would offer technical support and loan guarantees or financing to help Alberta First Nations invest in natural resource development projects or pipelines.
Further listening: Charles Adler, the conservative national radio host for Corus Radio, subjected Kenney to a remarkable, hour-long challenge over the prevalence in the UCP of candidates with intolerant views, his refusal to dump a candidate who discussed homosexual love in tandem with pedophilia in a sermon five years ago, and his insistence on rolling back Alberta’s protections for LGBTQ school peer support clubs.
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