Kenney, Smith, and the UCP are the symptom of a failure of Alberta’s entrenched political class to deal with the province’s deeper problems. This failure takes the form of demands that the Alberta state be given more power; that is, that those who have held power in the province going on forty years be given even more power. But nothing ever changes.
The days when MPs actually, and effectively, represented the concerns and aspirations of their constituents with their policy input have long faded. Our…