Loewen received a message of support from a second UCP backbencher, Dave Hanson.
In a radio interview, Loewen said he doesn’t want to divide the United Conservative Party, but added volunteers and supporters are bailing out and the UCP is heading for electoral disaster in 2023. The people are upset. They are leaving the party, Loewen told 630 CHED. We need to do what it takes to stop the bleeding. We need to have our constituency associations strong. We’ve got to quit losing board members. The majority of people I’m talking to, they want a strong UCP party. But they don’t see that they have that now. We need to have that so we can move forward and be able to form government in 2023.
Simmering internal discontent within Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s United Conservative caucus has now boiled over into an open challenge to his leadership.
EDMONTON – Simmering internal discontent within Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s United Conservative caucus has boiled over into an open challenge to his leadership.
Senior backbench member Todd Loewen, in a letter posted on Facebook in the pre-dawn hours Thursday, called on Kenney to resign. Loewen said he no longer has confidence in the premier.
Hours later, Loewen received a message of support from a second UCP backbencher, Dave Hanson.
Loewen accuses Kenney and his government of weak dealings with Ottawa, ignoring caucus members, delivering contradictory messages, and botching critical issues such as negotiations with doctors and a controversy over coal-mining on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.
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A member of the United Conservative caucus is openly challenging Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s leadership to save the party from an election loss to the NDP opposition, he said Thursday.
Senior backbencher Todd Loewen posted a letter on Facebook in the pre-dawn hours Thursday calling on Kenney to resign. Hours later, he said many Albertans have lost trust in the premier, and rather than listening to their concerns, Kenney cancelled two caucus meetings without explanation.
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The Alberta Attorney General came under fire for his remarks on Facebook, saying that the Federal Liberal government, the media and the New Democratic opposition hope that the province’s healthcare system will not be overwhelmed by the COVID-19 case.
Kaycee Madu made the above remarks last week after the UCP government took more restrictive measures to curb the surge in COVID-19 cases in Alberta.
In the comments section of another user’s Facebook page, Madu wrote that the government needs to take action or risk leaving Alberta “on the scene and in temporary hospitals, and risk breathing because we have [run] Insufficient ventilators, manpower, etc. “