Facing uncertainty from within his party, Premier Jason Kenney is pushing party members to put division behind them and help keep the United Conservative movement in power.
To kick off the mail-in party vote to determine whether or not he would remain UCP leader, the premier gave a speech Saturday to a small in-person audience in Red Deer and virtually to the remainder of the party members.
"All of it told Albertans that we were more concerned about settling internal scores than getting our act together and doing the peoples' business," he said, adding it created a vote split that handed government to "left-wing ideologues.""One path is the path of division," Kenney said. "The other is the path to office."
A decision will be announced on May 18. Should Kenney not receive a majority, the party would need to host a contest to select a new leader. "I am in this, we are in this, to change government because, for me, I have always been a movement Conservative, a conviction Conservative."The premier recounted how the party focused on initiating jobs and investment, deregulating the economy, creating spending controls, and bringing "more power to the province" so there would be "more Alberta and less Ottawa.
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