Juno News - April 07, 2022


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


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In this episode, we discuss the upcoming leadership vote in the Alberta party leadership election, the challenges facing the party, and what it means for the future of the party and Alberta politics. We also talk about the impact of the leadership vote on the province, and whether or not the PM will survive it.

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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 1.00
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 1.00
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