Western Standard - November 02, 2024


UCP AGM： Board Election Results and Closing Remarks


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10 minutes

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892

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Learn English with the Premier of Alberta, Rachel Notley, who delivers a heartfelt speech at the Alberta Conservative Party's Annual General Meeting in Red Deer, Alberta, on Saturday, June 1, 2019. She also announces the results of the Board's leadership review, and offers her support to all of the newly elected board members.

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00:00:00.000 Thank you.
00:00:30.000 together, our executive director Dustin Van Butt, Vida Brody, our contractor, and
00:00:35.040 that entire team. I didn't hear from people that waited much more than about
00:00:38.880 20 minutes except right after the premier's keynote was done. Please, for
00:00:43.340 our team that put together this largest event ever, I'd ask you to put your hands
00:00:47.160 together. We really appreciate them.
00:00:49.160 but we all know what you want to know and we want to know it too so because we're nearing the end
00:01:03.500 I will ask that our returning officer Nick Milliken please come up he has a couple envelopes
00:01:09.120 he might like to share the contents with us about
00:01:11.440 Hi, everyone. First of all, I would like to announce our acclaimed board members, starting
00:01:25.420 and with our CFO, Jack Redekop.
00:01:33.720 VP of Bylaw and Policy is Ray Strom.
00:01:42.180 The Northern Regional Director is Mark Hunt.
00:01:48.440 And our Southern Regional Director is Elbert Van Heerden.
00:01:55.420 And, of course, now for the results of today's board vote, I am pleased to announce that
00:02:03.460 our new Regional Director from Calgary is Brad LaForge.
00:02:08.660 I am also pleased to announce that our new Edmonton Regional Director is Bobby Sue Menard.
00:02:23.660 Please give me a warm welcome to our Central Regional Director, Abigail Schimpke.
00:02:34.220 And it is also my pleasure to announce Patrick Malkin as our VP Membership.
00:02:49.240 Give you the offer here, Rob.
00:02:51.680 Thank you very much, Mr. Milliken, R.O. Milliken.
00:02:53.900 Would our board please all come up on stage?
00:02:56.700 We want to get a good picture when everyone is extremely happy.
00:03:01.000 And you guys get to see what an extraordinary team you have elected,
00:03:04.360 at least all but this one, because they work really hard for all of you.
00:03:08.800 Thank you for electing a great group, but also thank you to those candidates
00:03:12.440 not fortunate to be able to come up on the stage.
00:03:15.980 There's always next year, there's all of our CA boards,
00:03:18.400 and all of you that commit as a volunteer to our CAs and to our provincial party,
00:03:23.480 we thank you so much.
00:03:24.620 So please, a hand for all of our candidates.
00:03:48.400 Haha.
00:04:03.400 Haha.
00:04:05.400 All right…
00:04:13.980 All right, good.
00:04:18.220 All right.
00:04:21.520 And then at this time,
00:04:24.480 make sure you let the student come.
00:04:28.900 Let's mess with me.
00:04:31.880 What's up, bro?
00:05:01.880 Thank you.
00:05:31.880 thank you very much everyone and now for the moment we have all been waiting for the results
00:05:59.080 of the leadership review is with 4,633 cast ballots in the yes column to the decision of
00:06:10.560 do you agree of your leader 91.5 percent.
00:06:18.520 please welcome back our leader danielle smith
00:06:48.520 Oh, my God. Thank you so much, everyone.
00:06:51.680 Holy cow. You guys are diehards.
00:06:54.040 I can't believe you're all still here.
00:06:56.080 I love you. You're amazing.
00:07:02.200 91 percent. Oh, my goodness.
00:07:04.540 You guys, thank you. Thank you.
00:07:06.780 From the bottom of my heart, thank you so very much.
00:07:09.880 Look, there's so many thank yous that I have.
00:07:11.760 But let me start off by thanking our amazing executive director,
00:07:15.200 Dustin Van Wood and Vida and Emma, all the staff and volunteers who made this seamless,
00:07:21.440 this entire AGM. Give them a round of applause. They've done an amazing job.
00:07:28.040 And thanks to Nick Milliken for overseeing that vote, which I might point out was done
00:07:34.360 without tabulators. And they were able to get the results early.
00:07:41.580 and also thank you
00:07:45.600 to our outgoing board members
00:07:47.360 Ken Engler and Vince Blyfield and Peter Wankler
00:07:49.540 for doing such an amazing job in this past
00:07:51.620 year and our newcomers Jack Redekop
00:07:53.940 and Brad LaForge
00:07:55.900 and Bobby
00:07:57.300 Sussmanar. Thank you
00:07:59.660 all. I'm looking forward to working with you
00:08:01.580 as we move and
00:08:03.620 prepare for the next AGM
00:08:05.760 which will be in
00:08:07.360 Edmonton. So Edmonton you got a
00:08:09.600 I also want to express my thanks and gratitude to all of you, our party members, who made the trip out to Red Deer this weekend to take part in the largest political convention, probably in Canadian history. It's been amazing.
00:08:26.080 And I'm sure that you can all see and feel the strength of our grassroots party movement
00:08:33.700 from this room.
00:08:34.640 So to our party members, to our volunteers, our donors, and my caucus colleagues, I want
00:08:39.360 to thank you, all of you, for everything that you've done to grow our movement and to make
00:08:43.580 it stronger.
00:08:44.160 Thank you.
00:08:45.040 I'm truly humbled and honored by the overwhelming support of our party members and your vote
00:08:49.700 of confidence in my leadership.
00:08:51.700 Our conservative thank you, really.
00:08:56.080 Our conservative movement is stronger than it's ever been.
00:09:01.820 Our party is more united than it has ever been.
00:09:07.560 And together we will continue to lead our nation's economy
00:09:12.120 and create hundreds of thousands of jobs and countless opportunities.
00:09:16.500 Together we will vigorously protect the rights and freedoms of Albertans
00:09:20.340 and Alberta parents and children.
00:09:22.180 Together we will build health and education systems
00:09:25.300 that are among the best in the world.
00:09:27.520 Together, we will continue to defend Alberta
00:09:30.540 from the NDP Liberal Coalition in Ottawa
00:09:34.120 and defend our province's sovereignty.
00:09:39.580 And my friends, let me be perfectly clear.
00:09:43.000 Together, we will soundly defeat Nahad Nenshi and the NDP in 2027.
00:09:50.880 United, we will not be defeated.
00:09:53.560 Thank you again, Alberta.
00:09:55.300 And I will now officially close the 2024 UCP AGM drive safe and we'll see you in Edmonton.
00:10:25.300 Thank you.
00:10:55.300 You