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CALGARY — In a quiet Calgary neighbourhood in the city’s southeast, United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney pushes open the passenger door of the still-moving blue pickup truck and jumps out to greet a crew of volunteers.
“She drives like a madwoman,” Kenney tells the volunteers. With a massive UCP logo on the truck, he jokes that “if we cut anyone off we lose voters.” As a red pickup truck drives by, Harper jokes that it might be the Liberals, but the driver leans on the horn and gives an enthusiastic thumbs-up as he merges onto the Deerfoot and roars past the UCP truck.Votes will be cast in the Alberta election on Tuesday, marking the culmination of a three-year journey for Kenney, who wrestled the province’s conservatives into a single, vote-split-immune machine that exists for the sole purpose of defeating Rachel Notley’s New Democratic Party.
This election is about jobs, pipelines and the economy, Kenney says at every stop, and just about everyone agrees. For those few remaining Albertans who can be swayed and who may believe the NDP has been dealt a bad economic hand with plummeting oil prices and an impossibly complicated pipeline approval process, it’s about how much you believe in Rachel Notley.Notley’s team, for its part, is pushing hard through the last weekend. Lethbridge on Thursday.
Then there’s some gladhanding and an introduction by Brian Bietz, who runs a business that helps energy companies work through the regulatory process. “I’m 66 years old,” he says, “and for the first time in my life I’m voting NDP.” For Notley’s team, the strategy, all along, has been clear: make voters doubt Kenney’s character and they’ll doubt that his party deserves to rule.
For all their differences, Jason Kenney and Rachel Notley have fundamentally similar priorities on the economy. What politician doesn’t? They both want jobs, an economy that’s hot and Albertans making scads of money.The NDP has no illusions about the fact that Notley is their best, and possibly only, asset against the UCP juggernaut.
How could Alberta expect the rest of the country to play ball, if the province didn’t show it was concerned about climate change?
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