Alberta PCs set Rules for Leadership Race to Replace Former Premier Jim Prentice
EDMONTON – Alberta’s Progressive Conservatives have laid out the rules for their leadership contest, including retroactive finance disclosure and a rule forbidding candidates from doing anything that could harm the PC brand.
The race does not officially begin until October 1 and Conservative MP Jason Kenney is the only candidate to announce he is in the running to replace former premier Jim Prentice.
Kenney is running on a platform to merge the PCs with the Wildrose party to create a new right-centre party to challenge the NDP government.
Party president Katherine O’Neill won’t say if Kenney’s merger plan would violate the ban on harming the PC brand, saying she won’t discuss hypotheticals.