Michelle Rempel Garner says she will not enter the race to lead Alberta’s United Conservative Party, putting an end to weeks of speculation that the Calgary Tory MP would make a run to replace the outgoing leader, Premier Jason Kenney.
In a blog posting Thursday morning, Rempel Garner said that while she was grateful for the many offers of encouragement to run for the leadership, she decided against it for two main reasons — that she wants to keep serving her Calgary constituents as a federal MP, and the “present internal UCP caucus dynamic.”
“I think Albertans would be better served if right
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