Western Standard - May 20, 2022


Notley says UCP government remains 'missing in action'

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Rachel Notley Take Back Alberta Danielle Smith Jason Kenney
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Rachel Notley says not much has changed in the wake of Jason Kenney's resignation as leader of the United Conservative Party of Alberta. She says the absent UCB government has already been missing in action for months, and will continue to do so as it enters caretaker mode amid a leadership race.

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00:00:00.400 NDP leader Rachel Notley says not much has changed in the wake of Premier Jason Kenney's announcement
00:00:05.040 he'll resign as leader of the United Conservative Party. After scraping through his leadership
00:00:09.920 review on Wednesday night with 51.4% of UCB member support, Kenney immediately announced
00:00:15.440 his intentions to resign. But the UCB government has already been missing in action for months,
00:00:20.320 Notley said during a press conference Thursday. We didn't have a government focus on governing
00:00:25.040 for months and months and months leading up to yesterday, she said. And now I suppose what's
00:00:30.240 changed is we know definitely that we won't have that for months and months and months going forward
00:00:35.040 and that probably would have been the case no matter what happened yesterday, Notley said.
00:00:40.320 The NDP leader also said the absentee UCB government would continue to let down the burns
00:00:45.360 as it moves into caretaker mode amid a leadership race. In an exclusive interview with the Western
00:00:50.240 Standard on Tuesday, Kenney said he hasn't been distracted by the leadership review.
00:00:53.760 I probably spent less than 10% of my time on it in the past three months, he said.
00:00:58.880 In his resignation speech Wednesday night, Kenney said the mandate from UCB voters was not strong
00:01:03.520 enough for him to continue as leader. He asked the party to trigger a leadership race. That race has
00:01:09.120 now begun with former Wildrose leader Danielle Smith being the first to announce her candidacy in a
00:01:13.680 virtual launch Thursday. My campaign is going to be centered around putting Alberta,
00:01:18.720 Alberta interests and Albertans first. Notley said it's premature to discuss with the new UCB leader
00:01:23.520 might bring to the table, but the party has a record of letting Albertans down, partly because 0.98
00:01:28.320 they're incapable of coming together, she says. This is a government and a party that's not capable
00:01:33.120 of taking real action to support Alberta families who are struggling with an affordability crisis,
00:01:37.920 Notley said. In the wake of Kenney's resignation, Take Back Alberta, a grassroots conservative group
00:01:43.440 that organized to oust the Premier, said it's now time for all Conservatives in Alberta to focus on the
00:01:48.400 real enemy, which is the NDP and their socialist agenda. Notley said she's unsurprised by the comments.
00:01:54.880 This is politics in Alberta, she said in response to a question from the Western Standard.
00:01:59.040 I hope that we're able to speak truthfully, on the basis of facts, and to each other, and to all
00:02:03.840 Albertans. Notley said.