More than two decades before Jason Kenney ran to become Alberta’s premier, he entered electoral politics as a Calgary MP for the Reform Party. The Reformers’ rallying cry was “The West wants in”—a demand for sway in a Confederation long dominated by populous Ontario and temperamental, demanding Quebec. But a subset of their number actually preferred the West wresting its way out, especially from areas under Ottawa’s control.
At the same time as he nurses Alberta’s traditional grudge against Quebec, Kenney has signalled that, as premier, he’d draw inspiration from Quebec’s political obstinacy. “I think we can learn a few things from our Quebec friends, how they’ve been so effective, dominating the politics of the federation over several decades,” he told a United Conservative Party rally in March, a few days into the campaign. “You know, I respect them. They fought for themselves.
While the firewallers wanted an Alberta-only equivalent of the RCMP, Kenney proposes an Alberta parole board that would be more mindful of rural crime woes than the federal board. He suggests a constitutional challenge to the Liberals’ Bill C-69 for environmental assessments, which he calls the “No More Pipelines Act,” though Alberta oil and pipeline organizations are lobbying to amend it rather than kill it outright.
The high court did, in fact, take steps to limit the scope of its ruling to unilateral declarations of independence, says Margot Young, professor at Vancouver’s Allard School of Law; there’s no such obligation upon Canada to negotiate the results of an Alberta referendum on equalization. “It’s fudging the boundaries between what law requires and what is politics.
AaronWherry markusoff Maclean’s has gone from minimizing Kenney’s chances of a united Conservative party to minimizing his chances as leader to minimizing his chances of winning the election to minimizing the sentiment of many westerners. Awesome record.
markusoff Seams to work
markusoff Quebec will never leave be sue they got too much and still get $ from western Canada. They also have the support of our moron PM . So we will as taxpayers show up in droves to vote these liberals OUT! We deserve better . We deserve leadership not dictatorship!
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