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Originally Posted by GGG
Kenny had the best opening up strategy, he did the best on schools, he sacrificed (or perhaps miscalculated the cost) his career going against his base. He closed things down too late leading to longer closures.
Of the premiers in Canada I’d say he was number 6. The Atlantic bubble and BC beating him out. He was ok.
He also started running for PPs job yesterday and was hilariously caught when Bartan talked about the knives being out for pp
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Do you mean the false start "best summer ever" that led to disasters in the fall where schools were forced to close because they had no healthy teachers and half the students were sick? And even Hinshaw admitted they got it wrong and it was more a political decision than a science and health based one? Or do you mean later in February when it was still arguably too early given the state of our healthcare system at the time and that he was allowing himself to be controlled by the fringe of the party for fear of what eventually happened to his job?
He assembled the UCP, he's responsible for at least some of what happened to the party and his loss to Smith because he saw consolidating power, no matter who you have to turn to to do it, was a reasonable way forward. Not to mention the sketchy way he got there in the first place. That backfired on him eventually, and backfired on Alberta mightily. I do not want to see a man with that strong of political power motivations as CPC leader. It wasn't good for Alberta the way he swept in from his Federal position, and it won't be good for Canada if he tries the reverse.