Braid: Former UCP premier Jason Kenney refutes separatists, says Carney has chance to right wrongs
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Various independence-boosting groups can now continue to farm rage and raise money. A Conservative victory would have been bad for business.
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Former premier Jason Kenney took a run at the new Republican Party of Alberta, formerly the Buffalo Party.
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Kenney is no friend of Liberal Ottawa. As the first UCP premier, he constantly battled the feds in the courts.
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He challenged the carbon tax, Bill C-69, the plastics ban and application of the Emergencies Act, winning as often as he lost.
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He launched a referendum on reforming equalization that carried but was ignored by Ottawa, despite their constitutional duty to take it seriously.
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'Resentment and anxiety in Alberta are a very real thing,' Kenney said in an interview.
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'Alberta and the resource-producing parts of western Canada have totally legitimate grievances about the direction of policy under the Trudeau government, and totally legitimate anxieties about where this will go under Carney.
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'It's the job of the provincial government to defend Alberta's interests in the federation . . . it's the job of any premier to raise those issues.
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