Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is facing a leadership review in November and appears to be prioritizing the opinions of UCP members over other Albertans. She has held numerous town halls exclusively for UCP members, focusing on issues they raised at last year's convention, including a ban on vote-counting machines.
The premier is sending a message with her Bill of Rights changes, and she likely hopes her party members like what they hear before her leadership review .Every political party has policy ideas and adopts resolutions. It's rare they wield as much influence as they have in Danielle Smith 's UCP . It's an uphill battle to make the province reverse its ban on vote-counting machines in local elections, the mayor of St. Albert knows only too well.
"The government has to remember they don't just represent the UCP people at the convention — they represent all of Alberta," Heron told Speaking to a UCP crowd in Red Deer last month, Smith took pains to explain why it's taken a year for party policy resolutions to become legislation, after wending their way through the law-making processes of the cabinet and government. "I know that it can feel like it takes a long time, but when you pass policy in November, the earliest we can act on it and bring it into the legislature is the following November," she said.
Jason Kenney, when wooing UCP leadership votes, signed a "grassroots guarantee" to respect the policy wishes of United Conservatives when seeking the leadership in 2017. But he added a: that party ideas would have to be balanced against the Kenney team's assessment of what the rest of Alberta would support.
When the Alberta NDP was in power last decade, its party organizers did their best to ensure some activist measures like a ban on fracking stayed off the convention floor, tamping down potential tensions within the membership and with While Smith has fulfilled several of her party's policy wishes, she isn't giving them everything. She's promised some new Bill of Rights provisions about refusing medical treatments, property rights and firearms rights, but has given no indication she'll embrace the myriad proposals of the'We need to control the party': a look inside Take Back Alberta's UCP insurgency
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