Notley’s final pitch to the voters followed a week of embarrassments for Jason Kenney’s rival UCP, which has long been coasting to apparent victory in the polls
The Alberta legislature has been dissolved, and the election candidates are pounding the mean streets of Bruderheim and Rimbey and Picture Butte. New Democratic Premier Rachel Notley ended up sticking to the schedule that had long been apparent: a March 18 Throne Speech followed by a quick election call, with April 16 as the date. . We do not yet have evidence contradicting this picture, and Alberta political polling is no condition to inspire trust even if some does appear.
Alberta will need time to absorb the long sequence of relevations about the UCP leadership contest which Kenney won to position himself as opposition leader. For months it was clear that something had been fishy about the longshot leadership campaign of Jeff Callaway, an important figure from the early days of the Wildrose Party.
At the end of last week, bizarre rumours about Jean began to fill the Alberta air. Since his defeat by Kenney, Jean has stayed in Ft. McMurray, a fair slab of which he will have just inherited from his legendary mother Frances, and has kept his own counsel. Those who were never comfortable with Kenney’s victory — both inside and outside the UCP — were keeping an wistful eye on him.
As this beehive was humming, Jen Gerson of Maclean’s magazine got Callaway staffer Cam Davies to spill the beans on the “kamikaze” story. Davies acknowledged a transfer of $60,000 from an unknown source to Callaway’s campaign so that it could be divided up unlawfully and turned into phony personal donations.
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