Rural Albertans voted overwhelmingly for Jason Kenney’s party, but then growing distrust prompted them to help oust him. The UCP’s next leader will need to restore their trust, and then somehow hang onto it.
Rimbey store owner Jackie Stratton likes that leadership candidate Danielle Smith has small business experience and is willing to push back at Ottawa with her Alberta Sovereignty Act.
The conservative heartland voted overwhelmingly for Kenney's party in 2019, but then growing distrust prompted rural Alberta to help oust him. The UCP's next leader will need to restore these regions' trust, and then somehow hang onto it. In and around Rimbey, the town of 2,500 about 60 kilometres northwest of Red Deer, conservatives harbour lingering resentment about the province's COVID rules. Vaccination rates there are the lowest in central Alberta, about 20 percentage points behind the provincial average.
Becky Doig, a UCP member from Magrath, says she wants to see the party elect someone who can unite the movement and lead with compassion. Some hay bales along the rural highways are draped in banners calling for "Freedom" or "More Alberta, less Ottawa."
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