Merger history suggests Alberta’s United Conservative Party could be less than sum of its parts

The result of Saturday’s merger vote between Alberta’s Progressive Conservative and Wildrose parties, the new United Conservative Party has a good shot at defeating Rachel Notley’s New Democrats — but in mergers, one plus one does not always equal two.

This story was published on CBC News. For the rest of the story please read the story right here http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/alberta-united-conservative-party-1.4218861?cmp=rss.

This post was originally published on this site