Juno News - Does Jason Kenney have the votes to survive his leadership review？

00:00:00.000 i'm kind of wondering if you could if you could give us a little bit of a prediction or analysis

00:00:03.520 of whether you think that that he has the the numbers to survive or whether you think that this

00:00:07.680 is the end of his time as premier well it's certainly an advantage to him that it's now

00:00:12.480 a broad-based vote of all members i think there's um 55 000 members that that signed up and and

00:00:19.280 that's a huge amount of interest because i think they were as low as 10 000 at the beginning of

00:00:23.920 the year so they they really had the party really was demoralized so it has been energized and it

00:00:29.680 really could go either way but the the main thing is that we need to have strong voices pushing him

00:00:34.800 to go in the direction that we always thought he was going to go i mean remember when he first

00:00:39.520 launched into his campaign he got in the big blue truck and drove around rural alberta and promised

00:00:45.760 the grassroots guarantee and so i haven't seen any evidence actually of grassroots decision making i

00:00:51.440 haven't seen any evidence that mlas are given any autonomy to raise issues and so those are the

00:00:57.440 reasons why i'm entering as an mla is that i i've done the job before i know how this province

00:01:03.360 historically has treated its frontline mlas and we don't do things the ottawa way i mean the ottawa way

00:01:09.280 is everything centers out of the prime minister's office and then there's the guys in short pants

00:01:14.320 that go around badgering and bullying everybody to fall into line with whatever comes out of the the

00:01:18.960 leader's office as an edict the way we operate in alberta is that we allow for our mlas to go out into the

00:01:25.760 community hear what the issues are raise them to caucus if the if the issue is is big enough in

00:01:30.720 caucus then the then the minister is charged with with resolving the issue and then if the minister

00:01:36.880 can't resolve it then it gets kicked up to the premiers it's actually the opposite and so this

00:01:40.720 this ottawa style top-down politics where mlas have no role and are just expected to sit down and shut up

00:01:47.200 is not is not what albertans expect and so if i can be a voice in helping to create the balance of what it

00:01:53.120 is this province should operate like so that we can get better decision making that's what i'm going to

00:01:57.760 do

Juno News - April 07, 2022