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Here are the five political leaders campaigning in Alberta’s provincial election
EDMONTON—Albertans are going to the polls in a spring election on April 16. ( JASON FRANSON / THE CANADIAN PRESS )Age: 33 Pre-politics: Alberta director and national research director of Canadian Taxpayers Federation. Politics: Elected member of the legislature for the Wildrose Party in 2015; joined the United Conservative Party after the Wildrose merged with the Progressive Conservatives; expelled from the UCP caucus in 2018; formed and now leading the Freedom Conservative Party. Politics: Won party leadership in 2017; lost Calgary Lougheed byelection in 2017; ran and lost in Calgary Buffalo in the 2015 provincial election; ran and lost in 2014 byelection in Calgary West. Running in: Edmonton Strathcona Quote: “Who is going to be premier and who is fit to be premier?
Source: thestar March 20, 2019 15:22 UTC
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