Jason Markusoff's Alberta Politics Insider for April 3: Another UCP 'bozo eruption,' Big Oil companies that favour a carbon tax, and more
Alberta Politics Insider is a morning newsletter on the provincial campaign, with news and exclusive analysis written by Maclean’s Alberta correspondent. To get it emailed to you every Monday to Friday, along with daily commentary and information from Ottawa, sign up at this link.Week 1: The UCP lost a candidate in the campaign’s first week over remarks sympathetic to white supremacy.
Later on Tuesday, the Edmonton Journal reported that Smith brought his prejudice into the legislature, writing a 2015 memo to his Wildrose Party caucus colleagues that arguing Christian schools should be able to fire homomosexual teachers.
—NDP is showing surprising fight in some Calgary seats outside at the inner city’s edges, and in communities around Edmonton.—New Democrats keep wondering if any of the other controversies will begin to resonateA Big Oil player wants a carbon tax While the frontrunning United Conservatives plan to scrap the provincial carbon tax and sue Ottawa to block a federal equivalent, one of Canada’s biggest gas station companies made threats in favour of an economy-wide carbon tax.
Bill Kaufmann on the “Notley-Trudeau alliance” charges: “Those accusations are cheap political pandering that do nothing to advance the Trans Mountain Pipeline and other economic development, Notley responded. “He can say whatever he wants. My job as the premier is to work with people in all levels of government, regardless of how much I do or do not disagree with them,’ she said.”
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