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    Alberta’s upstart Wildrose Alliance party to pick new leader
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    In the hours before the vote Saturday afternoon, Dyrholm said that members should vote for the candidate who best matches their values. "Look at the proud Reform heritage of Preston Manning, Stockwell Day, Stephen Harper, and understand that what may hold true in other parts of Canada doesn't hold true here today ... You can vote for your conservative principles and Albertans will be behind you." Former journalist Danielle Smith said she is the only candidate who can harness the growing support and build the party. Full Article at National Post
    Look at the proud Reform heritage of Preston Manning, Stockwell Day, Stephen Harper, and understand that what may hold true in other parts of Canada doesn't hold true here today ... You can vote for your conservative principles and Albertans will be behind you.
    SOURCE: National Post 1 month ago
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Alberta’s upstart Wildrose Alliance party to pick new leader
  1. We need a real debate, with real scientists, so we know whether this is an issue or not ... But what I do believe is that it's not true. . . . I think we're buying onto a political bandwagon.
    SOURCE: National Post 1 month ago
  2. Wildrose support is very, very soft
    SOURCE: National Post 1 month ago
  3. Are we going to be a protest party, the NDP of the right? ... Or are we going to create a big-tent, mainstream right of centre, grassroots conservative party that is capable of catching one of those historic waves and sweeping us into government in 2012.
    SOURCE: National Post 1 month ago
  4. They need to cancel the carbon capture and storage project. It's going to be an enormous boondoggle.
    SOURCE: National Post 1 month ago
  5. There's a bunch of ifs involved in that and I think it all depends on who the leader is going to be.
    SOURCE: National Post 1 month ago
  6. It's a very untested political formation. They have to be able to overcome the scrutiny that is going to be coming their way in . . . their policies.
    SOURCE: National Post 1 month ago
  7. When you talk to people around the province, there certainly seems to be a fair amount of discontent, and I think you're seeing people looking at alternatives
    SOURCE: National Post 1 month ago

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