[Bunk]

The PCs in Alberta are a governing party - they occupy the middle of the political spectrum, pushing their rivals to the periphery. It would be hard to argue, in my view, that their actual policies are any more conservative than for example the Liberal Party in BC or the Liberal Party in Ontario.

Things like fiscal responsibility are now simply orthodoxy (and have been for twenty years), and real hot button social issues (same sex marriage, abortion, capital punishment) simply are not issues at all anymore.