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In another world, at another time, a government would be in deep trouble over current voting and financing scandals.
The UCP leadership vote, allegedly involving bogus email addresses, is being investigated by the RCMP, with a special prosecutor from Ontario appointed. The Mounties have interviewed five UCP cabinet ministers.
One leadership candidate, Jeff Callaway, has now been hit with $120,000 in fines for irregularities in funding of his UCP leadership campaign.
Many thousands more have been levied on others involved in the so-called kamikaze campaign scandal.
Atop all this sits Jason Kenney, the UCP premier, untouched by the boiling cauldron below.
He’s the one who’s supposed to have benefited from Callaway’s alleged decoy campaign. Kenney denies having anything to do with it.
Most of the allegations have been public knowledge for months. They were widely known long before the UCP flattened the NDP in the April 16 election.
The only change today is the spectacular magnitude of fines against Callaway, imposed by Alberta’s election commissioner, Lorne Gibson.
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(2) Alberta company turns trash into diesel with its ‘game-changing’ technology
(3) Ottawa’s carbon tax is so bad, it’s uniting Alberta and Quebec
