Western Standard - October 14, 2026


Cory Morgan： Jason Kenney is trying to tear the UCP apart

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Rachel Notley Jason Kenney Kenny Ralph Klein
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2 minutes

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440

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23

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00:00:00.000 Okay, I can understand Jason Kenney's desperate quest to find political relevance again. 0.99
00:00:05.720 He's a political animal, and he managed to get kicked out on his butt from the UCP by the membership.
00:00:12.860 And he's put himself into a Captain Canada role to walk hand in hand with Rachel Notley for the sake of unity as a referendum approaches. 0.97
00:00:22.360 Fine, Jason, do your thing.
00:00:24.060 But now, now he's trying to divide the entire UCP.
00:00:28.500 I got to wonder how close he is getting to Rachel Notley.
00:00:31.440 He's throwing sand in the gears of things.
00:00:33.580 He's basically calling for a purge of independent supporters within the UCP after the referendum.
00:00:40.000 Now, whatever the results are of the referendum, whatever people across Alberta, the amount
00:00:44.720 that support independents are, it's a pretty well-established fact that a massive segment
00:00:49.820 to the UCP supports independence.
00:00:52.800 I mean, I can understand not supporting having the UCP
00:00:56.800 turn into a full independence party. 0.59
00:00:58.980 I think that's foolish pushing for that as well,
00:01:01.600 and that's happening from some of the independence elements.
00:01:04.520 But what Kenny's trying to do, what he's talking about,
00:01:06.620 will tear the party in two, and he damn well knows it.
00:01:09.500 And he's putting out a lie, and I'm getting tired of hearing him
00:01:12.100 say that one over and over again too,
00:01:13.860 that there was an agreement for the merger of those parties
00:01:17.160 that called for support within a unified Canada.
00:01:19.620 That was in basically an agreement in principle that was written on a napkin when they started their first talks to bring the Wild Rose and the Progressive Conservatives together.
00:01:28.080 There was never a principle entrenched or accepted by members on the foundation of that party. Never.
00:01:34.000 And he's making up this baloney that that's what the party's been founded on all this time.
00:01:37.540 so you know he's gone from now just being a guy hanging around and he needs something to do
00:01:45.380 because he's lost all his political roles to somebody who's going to try to cause outright
00:01:50.100 damage and you know what i think the main motivation of it is he doesn't want danielle
00:01:54.060 to succeed where he failed he doesn't want her to become a conservative leader who manages to make
00:02:01.240 it into two consecutive general elections and get out of them with majority governments in a row
00:02:06.800 which hasn't happened since Ralph Klein. That's what it's about. Personal, vindictive,
00:02:12.620 pettiness, and spite. Campaign for unity, federalism, all you want, Mr. Kenny. But trying
00:02:21.700 to sit on the sidelines and throw rocks into a party that already rejected you
00:02:25.420 is just small and unproductive and not doing any good.