The UCP win puts an end to Rachel Notley’s historic term in office, making the NDP the province’s only one-term government
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Mr. Kenney, who was a prominent member of prime minister Stephen Harper’s cabinet, led the United Conservative Party to victory in Tuesday’s provincial election nearly two years after a merger of Alberta’s political right put him on what seemed to be an inevitable path to power. He will set to work almost immediately undoing a raft of policies from the NDP’s four years in office while preparing for legal and political battles with Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
But he also identified what he views as a simpler solution to many of those problems: ensure Mr. Trudeau and the Liberals lose the fall federal election. Mr. Kenney has already been campaigning for Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, who has promised he would repeal the federal carbon tax and who the UPC Leader views as a natural ally of Alberta’s oil industry.
“Even in the days of Ralph Klein, I don’t think it was this much finger-jabbing at the feds,” he said. Mr. Kenney returned to Alberta to win the PC leadership on a platform of merging with the Wildrose, and took over the new party in October, 2017.The UCP enjoyed a substantial lead in public opinion polls since its creation and that continued into the election campaign. The party’s edge appeared to have narrowed over the past few weeks, but the New Democrats could not close the gap.
Ms. Notley also attempted to paint Mr. Kenney as an extreme social conservative, bringing up his long history of advocacy against same-sex marriage and abortion, which began in university and continued into his time as an MP. The party also pointed to revelations of homophobic or racist comments from UCP candidates, including two who resigned, as a sign that those problems ran deep in the party.
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