At his Calgary haunt, the Blackfoot Diner Kenney spoke to the National Post just days before the biggest vote of his life
By Tuesday night, he’ll know if his greatest gambit has paid off. When he returned to Alberta to take over the crumbling Progressive Conservative party and unite it with the chaotic Wildrose party to form the United Conservatives, this was the long game — to ascend to the premier’s office and restore Alberta to conservative rule.
A: I don’t just look at health care from a cold, policy, analytical perspective. It’s a very personal perspective. And I understand why people are so sensitive about the quality of the health care system, because it is life and death, it does affect the most intimate, important challenges — personal health challenges.
The reason I told this story is because I want people to know that I look at this through the lens of that experience. And, quite honestly, this is on of the reasons I decided to run for office at the provincial level. So that frustration could go in two different directions. It can either go in the direction of a total alienation cum separation or it can go in the direction of re-negotiating our place in the federation.
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