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There has been no mention of “sunny ways” during this Alberta election campaign.
United Conservative Party’s Jason Kenney has hammered a message to voters of a dismal economy wrought by the provincial NDP and a scornful and neglectful betrayal of Albertans at the hands of the federal Liberals. A second term for the NDP’s Rachel Notley, he has maintained, would deepen the economic slump. Mr. Kenney has argued he is the warrior Alberta needs to reassert the province’s might.
of the uphill battle Ms. Notley is fighting. She is armed with popular opinion in her favour: Poll respondents consistently put her personal popularity above that of Mr. Kenney. But liking her and voting for her appear to be two different things.
James Keller’s portrait of Mr. Kenney, published today, reveals a man of more nuance than his opponents might portray. Mr. Kenney, Mr. Keller writes, has been steeped in political action and conservative causes since his time at university.Mr. Kenney attended the University of San Francisco, a private Jesuit school in a city he later described as “Sodom by the Sea.
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