In a day of online, phone and in-person voting, party members voted 95.4 per cent in favour of folding up the party and joining the Progressive Conservatives to form the new United Conservative party. Wildrose Leader Brian Jean told more than 300 cheering supporters who jammed a room at a hotel in Red Deer on Saturday. RED DEER, ALTA.—Alberta's Wildrose party has voted overwhelmingly to end a decade of bitter feuding with Progressive Conservatives and join forces to defeat the governing NDP. "Today is not the end of Wildrose," Jean told the crowd. If both sides approve the deal, it will also spell the end of the Progressive Conservative party that governed Alberta for almost 44 years — a dynasty that was defeated by Notley's NDP.

Source: thestar July 22, 2017 23:00 UTC