No, no, not to Alberta. Don’t you think that Alberta premier Jason Kenney really misses the Ottawa scene? Don’t you think he has found those Alberta conservatives are far too far to his right? Don’t you think Kenney’s chief of staff has taken a leave of absence and is out beating the bushes to put together Kenney’s run for the federal conservative leadership?
After all, it was Jason Kenney who passed up on the leadership when Stephen Harper left after the 2015 election. He did the decent thing, he thought: he went to Alberta to unite the right. Job done. Time to go on. It would be churlish for people to note that all he did was unite the right in Alberta against him.
People need to realize that Jason Kenney is only right in his own mind. Here is the guy who showed Stephen Harper how to stand in front of an ethnic wall of people to make prime ministerial announcements. He is the Catholic who never mentions abortion but fought it in college.
And don’t you think it would be fun for him to blame all the pandemic mistakes on Justin Trudeau and just forget his crock-up in Alberta? And he can recant on his promise to support Ten-Dollar Day Care.
But time is short. He has to announce before the April 9 meeting in Red Deer that plans to dump him as premier of Alberta. He needs to resign first. It is the honourable way. The entire weekend can be devoted to telling him what a wonderful job he has done in uniting the right. Even Brian Jean might be tempted to say something nice about him.
Of course, there are some other problems to solve. He can hardly run against his “good friend” Pierre Poilievre. He has got to convince Pierre to stand down and support the Kenney Campaign to Save Canada from Justin Trudeau.
After all, Pierre will step aside with a guarantee of being Kenney’s choice as finance minister, with deputy prime minister thrown in for good measure.
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