A Pyric Victory for Albertans

Don’t raise a glass yet.  Getting rid of Jason Kenney is not the victory that it should be.

I voted for Jason Kenney.  It was the worst mistake I have ever made and I have lived long enough to make plenty of mistakes.  Jason Kenney was the wrong man, in the wrong place, at the wrong time.  He came along when Albertans were at a very low point.  Albertans had suffered through a series of poor premiers culminating with Rachel Notley, an old school communist who worked hard to destroy the economy with taxes and regulations.  At the time Jason looked like the answer to our prayers.

Jason won a huge majority and things looked bright but it did not take long for the honeymoon to end.  On the campaign Jason said all the right things but then as Premier he did none of them.  As a career politician Jason had all the right words but he did not understand any of them.  He promised to get rid of red tape but could not because he does not understand that red tape is excessive government regulation.  I am sure he is still stumbling around the province looking for physical red tape wrapped around Albertans that he can heroically remove.

Under normal circumstances Jason would have been just one more in a growing line of poor premiers, unfortunately 2020 was not normal circumstances.  In 2020 the left weaponized cold and flu season to usher in the great reset.  Alberta needed a leader and all we had was Jason Kenney.

Jason did not have the courage or intelligence to do the right thing.  Everyone was locking down and Deena Hinshaw was urging Jason to destroy the economy.  Jason followed the herd because politically it was the safe thing to do.  Then when people questioned how unemployment became such a potent antiviral, Jason did the only thing he is good at, he lied.  For the next 2 years as Albertan’s suffered Jason’s strategy did not change.  He alternated between Lying and hiding behind Deena Hinshaw’s skirt.  Hardly a good look for a leader.

To Jason’s dismay his strategy was not as safe as he thought it would be.  There are still too many independent thinkers in Alberta.  Lies and economic destruction proved to be popular everywhere in Canada except Alberta.  Even with the media’s help Jason could not convince Albertans that lives needed to be destroyed to fight a virus.  Jason tried to calm the waters by promising a leadership vote and that brings us to where we are today.

Jason won the vote by a small margin but promptly resigned before anyone could question the veracity of the mail in ballots.  Getting rid of this incompetent, evil, little man should be cause for celebration but it is not because he is not gone.  Jason is staying on as leader until a new leader can be appointed.  This is the worst possible outcome for Albertans.

With Jason Kenney in charge Albertan’s were headed to another disastrous Notley NDP government.  Communists might not be bright but they are loyal.  After 4 terribly destructive years Rachel Notley did not lose much support.  The people who support her did not lose their appetite for government handouts.  Jason only defeated Rachel because he was able to convince the majority to vote UCP rather than Wild Rose, the other conservative option.  Due to Jason’s inability to handle a fake emergency, conservative votes are leaking to the Wild Rose and Rachel Notley is again poised to come up the middle.  The future looks very dim for Albertans.

The only way for the UCP to avoid vote splitting is to pick a leader who will apologize to Albertans and admit the UCP were wrong.  How can that happen with Jason Kenney still in charge?  How can any candidate step forward and promise to hold people accountable for this farce when the man who caused it is still in power?  That candidate would be promising to punish the current Premier and leader of the party.

The best outcome would have been for Jason Kenney to have received so little support that he resigned immediately and slinked back to Ottawa where he belongs.  With Jason Kenney clearly out of the way and out of the province the UCP could turn this around.  There is no hope of that with Kenney still temporarily in charge.  Albertan’s just won a battle that leaves them unable to defeat Rachel Notley and the NDP.  Communism is on the horizon.  So are permanent lockdowns and mandatory vaccinations.

Or a virus either.