Alberta UCP caucus has 'no business' signing separation vote petition: former premier

[Spazito]

Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney says the governing United Conservative Party caucus has "no business" signing a petition to force a vote on the province quitting Canada.

Kenney, in an interview Monday, said the party he helped create in 2017 and lead until 2022, was founded with the principle that it's committed to a strong Alberta within a united Canada.

"If you've run on a platform, let's say in the 2019 and the last Alberta election — twice under the UCP banner — you have been running as someone who believes in a united Canada," Kenney said.

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The former premier's comments come after a leader of the petition campaign to force a vote to leave Canada claimed members of Premier Danielle Smith's United Conservative caucus have signed their names.

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"If these folks really hate Canada and they really adore the United States and [President] Donald Trump, then there's a border crossing or two that they can take tomorrow," Kenney said.

"Claim asylum in the United States. Deal with ICE and get the hell out of our country if you are going to undermine us and [are] working with foreign powers to do so."

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-ucp-caucus-has-no-business-signing-separation-vote-petition-former-premier-9.7071622

I never, never, never thought I would agree with Kenny on ANYTHING but I agree with everything he said here.

[Firestorm49]

1. This sounds rather Putinesque - split allegiances to gain control. Ah, I'm probably full of it!

[Spazito]

2. I don't think so in this case...

Kenney would have no liking for the current leader of the UCP as she worked very hard against him in order to win the leadership of the party.

[Bev54]

3. Kenny is not high on my list of credible people but he is right in this case.

Imagine, I was so pleased when he was gone as leader but look what they put in his place. Damn I hope people of Alberta wake up and change this government, and before she runs the province into the ground like Trump is doing in the US. She seems to be bent on destroying us under project 2025 as well.

[Spazito]

4. I feel the same way...

I naively thought it couldn't get worse with someone other than him and was pretty sure smith wouldn't succeed in her pursuit of the leadership, boy, was I wrong on both counts.

I look at her as trump north, she is following his 'lead' with relish and we are paying the price. I, too, hope Albertans wake up very soon to the dangerous road they are taking the province.