Voters nearly halved the UCP’s standing in Calgary and shut the party out in Edmonton
will soon construct a cabinet from the UCP’s shrunken roster of MLAs, and its shortage of experience and urban representation will make this task more complicated. While some cabinet members were re-elected, the politicians who were in charge of some of the government’s thorniest files – health, justice, mental health and addiction – at dissolution were among the vanquished.
“It will be a lot more rural,” said Karamveer Lalh, a lawyer and former UCP staff member and Conservative Party of Canada employee. While Mr. Lalh expects cabinet to have greater rural representation, there is still room for nuance. Ms. Smith will have to consider where potential ministers sit on the ideological spectrum. The party is now more rural, as well as more conservative. But if Ms. Smith freezes out moderate and progressive voices in her government, she risks further alienating voters the UCP wants to lure back into the fold.
“The party didn’t win on the strength of those extreme voices, but those extreme voices are very prominent within the party,” Dr. Wildcat said, when discussing the challenges Ms. Smith faces as she shapes the party’s future.
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