Western Standard - November 04, 2021


Jean to seek UCP nomination in Fort McMurray


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Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

153.46596

Word count

414

Sentence count

26

Harmful content

Misogyny

3

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Former Wildrose leader Brian Jeanne files papers to seek the United Conservative nomination in his old riding of Fort McMurray-Lac-La-Biche. Jeanne has spent the last year sniping at Jason Kenney from the sidelines, calling for him to resign on several occasions.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Hello, I'm Western Standard News Editor Dave Naylor.
00:00:04.020 Former Wild Rose leader Brian Jeanne wants to go back to his old stomping grounds.
00:00:09.020 The man who lost the UCP leadership to Premier Jason Kenney
00:00:12.200 has filed papers to seek the UCP nomination in his old writing of Fort McMurray-Lac-La-Biche.
00:00:19.360 Quote, you spoke and I listened, wrote Jeanne in a Facebook posting.
00:00:24.740 Something must be done or Rachel Notley will win the next election with an overwhelming majority.
00:00:30.000 That will be bad for Alberta. 0.98
00:00:32.320 The quote continued, I have filed papers with Elections Alberta to pursue the UCP nomination
00:00:37.600 for Fort McMurray-Lac-La-Biche.
00:00:40.320 I will need your help.
00:00:41.900 The NDP won't want me to win.
00:00:44.040 Some in the UCP will want to stop me as well.
00:00:47.380 The writing was left vacant recently when UCP MLA Lila Goodridge resigned to run for the Federal Conservatives.
00:00:55.380 She easily won the writing, capturing 67% of the vote.
00:00:58.720 Jeanne was the leader of the original Wild Rose and was leader of the opposition from 2015 to 2017.
00:01:07.360 Jeanne has spent most of last year sniping at Kenney from the sidelines, 1.00
00:01:11.360 calling for him to resign on several occasions.
00:01:14.980 In June, Jeanne called on Kenney to quit in the wake of the Sky Palace scandal.
00:01:19.840 Quote, for the good of the UCP, for the good of Alberta,
00:01:22.920 it's time for Jason Kenney to resign.
00:01:25.620 Jeanne wrote in capital letters on his Facebook page.
00:01:29.420 Quote, I have been thinking about this for the last several days,
00:01:32.860 as I watched Premier Kenney take another relatively minor issue and turn it into a political crisis.
00:01:38.180 I was disappointed that the Premier and his chosen inner circle made a mess of following COVID rules
00:01:44.600 that he placed on all of Albertans.
00:01:47.200 But I was much more disappointed that when he was clearly in the wrong,
00:01:51.140 he just wouldn't apologize, wrote Jeanne.
00:01:53.920 And that got me to thinking about how often I've been disappointed in the government and what it does.
00:02:00.260 The Kenney government has a real how problem.
00:02:03.180 When they do things that Albertans overwhelmingly support,
00:02:07.340 they somehow manage to do them in a way that offends and angers the most people possible.
00:02:13.480 The Premier seems to think that everyone who isn't 100% loyal to Jason Kenney is an enemy of the state.
00:02:21.500 Jeanne added, quote, 0.70
00:02:23.200 This brutal attitude, unquote, has migrated its way into the political staff,
00:02:28.080 who still support Kenney and many of his ministers.
00:02:30.260 For the Western Standard, I'm Dave Naylor.