Alberta: Slush Fund and Election Laws

alberta: What's with that, anyway Alberta Can't Wait, for readers outside Alberta, is the PAC set up a few months ago by newly elected Progressive Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney's well-heeled supporters, according to Rabble. Its goal is to create a slush fund outside provincial election laws to bankroll the former Harper cabinet minister's effort to unite Alberta's divided conservatives and push them ever further to the right. After all, it was basically the same group of people who floated the idea of the Canadian Reform Alliance Party around the turn of the century. Yesterday, the PCs under Kenney and the Wildrosers led by Opposition Leader Brian Jean held a news conference in Edmonton to announce they've come up with a plan -- a tentative one, actually -- to merge the two parties. This will not necessarily be easy. They've signed an agreement in principle that calls for members of both parties to vote on the deal on July 22 and choose a leader on Oct. 28 if they say yes. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.