Jason Kenney and Association of Alberta Taxpayers

Conservative MP: Canada may be 12 to 24 months away from a total fiscal collapse!"-- Jason Kenney, President, Association of Alberta Taxpayers, May 9, 1993Yesterday, tout le monde political Alberta was abuzz with word Jason Kenney, Conservative MP for Calgary Midnapore and former Harper government cabinet heavyweight, is about to abandon federal politics and make big waves here in landlocked Alberta, according to Rabble. The media punditocracy apparently unanimously agrees: Kenney, 48, is about to embark on a career in Alberta politics, uniting the discombobulated provincial right with the snap of his fingers and swiftly sweeping the province New Democratic government from the field. "Kenney decision will be huge, not only in Alberta where the fractured right-of-centre vote contributed to the NDP stunning majority win last year, but in federal politics," Chris Hall, the CBC National Affairs Editor, hyperventilated yesterday. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. "There is an end to our line of credit. The general consensus appears to be that Kenney, who served as prime minister Stephen Harper defence minister and multiculturalism maven, will be an unstoppable juggernaut, crushing anything that wanders into his path as he steams majestically toward inevitable power. In 2014, Prentice, a former banker and federal Conservative cabinet minister, looked like the guy who could work the miracle necessary to make the Alberta Progressive Conservatives, then creakily approaching the 43rd year of dynastic rule in this province, whole again. Given the burgeoning excitement on the political right and among its journalistic auxiliary, it is fair for us to ask: Are Alberta conservatives about to make the same mistake with Jason Kenney their hapless Progressive Conservative wing made in 2014 when it chose Jim Prentice Call it Saviour Syndrome. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.