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Campaign Politics
Alberta 2019 Provincial Election
On April 16 Albertans will go to the polls where they will either elect a new leader in Jason Kenney or re-elect Rachel Notley as premier. Ms Notley won in 2015, largely because the province’s conservative movement had split into two rival camps and she was able to capitalize on the desire for change. Four years later and Ms. Notley is facing the same sentiment for change as falling commodity prices amid a slumping economy has seeded doubt in her ability to right the ship. Alberta is seeing unemployment levels above 6% and this has made people look closely at Jason Kenney, the longtime cabinet minister under Stephen Harper who has brought together the right and is running under the United Conservative banner. David Khan, the first openly gay leader of a political party in Alberta is hoping to increase his party’s current standings of 1 seat. Derek Fildebrandt, a former Wildrose MLA and now leader of the Freedom Conservative Party of Alberta, is trying to appeal to the more libertarian Albertans when they go to the polls, while Stephen Mandel, the former mayor of Edmonton and former cabinet minister under Jim Prentice, is trying to appeal voters who prefer a more centrist conservative party. Ed Watson gives us the story from Alberta.