Jason Markusoff’s Alberta Politics Insider for April 8: Why this election feels personal for many Albertans, the mud-slinging keeps getting rawer, and more
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Viscerality of a different sort is also propelling the United Conservatives into their current lead. To call it economic anxiety may not be adequate—for many, it’s economic insecurity and hardship. Kenney used last Friday’s Statistics Canada report to trumpet the fact 172,100 Albertans are looking for jobs but unable to find them—up by 60 per cent the number from five years ago before the oil price crash and NDP’s election.
East of Edmonton, Dave Quest of the underdog Alberta Party posted a Facebook video expressing surprise at how often he hears voters’ “fear that the NDP will be re-elected.” It’s an amateurish sort of revision one might not expect from a massive front-running party machine—the fixed-up version corrected various typos, shuffled some financial figures, puzzlingly removed some language about hate-inspired violence at houses of worship . Kenney had been hyping his platform development and release for nearly a year, but it’s clear from the dozens of edits it wasn’t actually ready for prime time.
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