A matter of time: Danielle Smith is putting in the hours to prevent UCP unrest
How Alberta's premier is striving to avoid the fate of many past conservative leaders, whose caucus and party base believed weren't listening to them.
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How Alberta's premier is striving to avoid the fate of many past conservative leaders, whose caucus and party base believed weren't listening to them.
Rob Smith, the current president of UCP Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills Constituency Association, intends to relinquish the post now that he's on the provincial board
Rob Smith, the current president of UCP Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills Constituency Association, intends to relinquish the post now that he's on the provincial board
A surge of conservative activists at this week's party AGM want Danielle Smith's party to hear its voice on medical rights and transgender issues. But a UCP president and executive can't really influence provincial policy, political veterans say.
Displeased United Conservative Party members sent a motion to party headquarters late last week asking that the April 9 review be opened up to a provincewide vote of all UCP members where they’d be able to cast ballots at special party polling stations set up in every riding and then have those votes added to the ballots cast at Red Deer.