Notley says Kenney’s constant anti-Trudeau broadsides show poor leadership
Posted Apr 2, 2019 1:14 pm.
Last Updated Apr 2, 2019 1:19 pm.
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CALGARY – Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley says it’s short-sighted and irresponsible for her opponent Jason Kenney to perpetually launch broadside attacks on her relationship with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Notley says for Kenney to suggest she is Trudeau’s willing accomplice is nothing more than political grandstanding and game-playing.
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She says such divisive rhetoric doesn’t serve broader long-term policy goals, adding that it’s a premier’s job to work with all politicians and all levels of government to get things done.
Kenney has repeatedly raised Trudeau as a provincial election issue, and this week promised to do whatever he could to see Trudeau defeated in the fall federal vote.
He says Trudeau’s policies are gutting Alberta’s core oil and gas industry and says Notley has been a willing participant in what he refers to as the “Trudeau-Notley alliance.”
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Notley says she has publicly voiced concerns with Trudeau over various issues, but says her working relationship with him helped on the Trans Mountain pipeline project when the feds bought it to keep the project going.
