Voters overlook ethical concerns about Jason Kenney's leadership run—and toxic remarks by his candidates—on the belief he can turn around the province's flagging economy. AlbertaVotes
Albertans have put faith in Jason Kenney as their economic saviour, putting his United Conservative Party on course for a majority government and ending the oil-producing province’s brief flirtation with NDP government.
The UCP went with a simpler slogan in the homestretch—“getting Albertans to work”—which resonated in a province with 6.9-per-cent unemployment, the highest in Canada outside chronically struggling Atlantic Canada, which had been sending thousands of young labourers to Alberta’s oilfields before the sector hit the skids around the time Notley took the premier’s office.
Kenney, a former federal cabinet minister under Stephen Harper, has pledged to confront the Trudeau government in various fronts, challenging the federal carbon tax in court, claiming the environmental assessment bill violates Alberta’s jurisdiction, and declaring that if there’s no progress on the Trans Mountain pipeline his province will hold a referendum to remove the equalization program from Canada’s constitution.
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