Jason Markusoff's Alberta Politics Insider for March 28: Ghosts of the UCP leadership race, an escape route from Fort McMurray, and more
A conservative operative named Hardyal “Happy” Mann was fined $9,000 Wednesday donating someone else’s money to the 2017 UCP leadership campaign of Jeff Callaway, the “kamikaze” candidate that Jason Kenney’s campaign coordinated to attack his key rival, Brian Jean. Alberta’s election commissioner has now levied $35,000 in fines for improper donations and other misdeeds on the Callaway campaign.
Kenney maintains his party followed all party rules, and says UCP legal counsel proactively offered assistance to police in any fraud investigation. The RCMP are indeed pursuing the allegations, rather than dismissing them outright, according to a party statement to Maclean’s on Wednesday. NDP over-responds to new UCP revelations As revelations and sniping from Liberals keep the SNC-Lavalin saga atop the news agenda, the federal Conservatives have tried cranking it past 11, promptly going nuclear by demanding Justin Trudeau resign, and later staging a Commons filibuster. The Alberta NDP find inspiration in weird places, given how they’re overdoing the response to fresh allegations of impropriety hitting Kenney, bidding to move the story forward.
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