This really has been a case of a death by 1000 cuts, none of what Redford has done has really been a major breach, but the continual optics of her actions are quite poor. Frankly I don't understand why people are so up in arms about the really quite small things like plane trips to similar destinations, these are things that one would hope that the Premier of the province would be unaware of ever occurring. To start putting to boots to someone based upon things like that is downright embarrassing. Then there is the stuff about how she is a bully, I know politicians, they are almost always bullies, at least the successful ones are. Look at Harper, he is a bully, but you never hear him getting called one, he is rather considered a strong willed-leader... Women on the other hand get called bitches and bullies.
She is viewed as being too liberal by the more right wing factions of the populace and too conservative by the left wing factions of the province. Really right now there isn't a huge population that the PCs are really attractive towards.
Right now Alberta has a revenue problem and any party that doesn't acknowledge that is going to be one that will find themselves in a deficit situation for a long period of time.
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