Last-ditch bid to turf Jason Kenney from Alberta PC leadership race fails
EDMONTON — A last-ditch attempt to get Jason Kenney kicked out of the Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership race has failed.
Party president Katherine O’Neill ruled Thursday that a bid by another member of the board of directors to call an emergency meeting on the issue for Feb. 24 is out of order.
O’Neill says the next meeting of the board will proceed as scheduled on March 19, one day after the new leader is picked at a delegated convention in Calgary.
“(O’Neill) has accepted a point of order … and ruled that the emergency meeting was not within the purview of the vice-president who called it, and so the meeting will not take place,” said party spokesperson Janice Harrington.