Jason Markusoff's Alberta Political Insider: The best check on a potential UCP government, Scheer versus snowflakes, and more
This is the sort of pre-election piece a journalist writes that makes him look abundantly silly if voters don’t deliver the verdict the writer expects. But with polls and a daunting electoral map pointing to a United Conservative victory, I’ll risk the potential for mockery that starts the evening of April 16 and ends either never, or when the social media twerps move on .
Notley is intelligent, well-intentioned and a capable political leader who deserves respect. These aren’t just my views—they’ve also been shared by Jason Kenney himself, and many of his fellow Conservatives. Alberta has been fortunate the last couple years to have in Kenney and Notley two formidable politicians in charge of the main parties; it would be ideal for that to continue, no matter what the chirpy partisans on the winning side may say.
In Newfoundland and Labrador, Paul Davis stayed on as Opposition Leader for three years after he was ousted as Tory premier in 2015. And persevering a year or two as leader of the runners-up used to be more common—like Gary Filmon in 1999, Roger Grimes in 2003 and Lorne Calvert in 2007. Then-Prime Minister John Turner was crushed in the 1984 election but led the Liberals into the 1988 contest and through to 1990.
The NDP’s steady attacks on bigoted or intolerant comments by UCP candidates and the leader seem likely to form part of the Trudeau Liberal playbook. Scheer signalled in an interview with 660 News that he’s ready for the broadsides. Jana G. Pruden on ground zero of Alberta’s small-town opioid crisis: “Mr. Kenney has said he’d suspend opening any new sites and review whether current sites should remain open. Ms. Notley has said existing support for drug consumption sites across the province will remain in place. Speaking at her campaign office a few blocks away from the ARCHES site, Ms. Phillips says there’s clearly work to be done, but stresses the number of lives that have been saved by the service.
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