{"id":35719,"date":"2014-12-18T00:24:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T16:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=35719"},"modified":"2025-01-17T21:11:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T02:11:45","slug":"seven-members-of-alberta-opposition-seek-to-join-government-ranks-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/12\/18\/seven-members-of-alberta-opposition-seek-to-join-government-ranks-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven members of Alberta opposition seek to join government ranks: Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"
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EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Jim Prentice’s caucus is meeting today to discuss a bid by at least half the official Opposition to cross the floor.<\/p>\n

Sources have told The Canadian Press that seven members of Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith’s party — including Smith herself — want to join Prentice’s Tory government.<\/p>\n

The sources also said house leader Rob Anderson is one of those expected to join in the crossover attempt.<\/p>\n

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Prentice has said caucus will have the final say on the matter.<\/p>\n

If carried out, the move would gut the Wildrose party and give the PCs an overwhelming 70 seats in the 87-seat legislature.<\/p>\n

With seven leaderless Wildrose members, the party would still be the official Opposition as the Liberals have only five members and the NDP four alongside Independent Joe Anglin, a former Wildroser.<\/p>\n

Jeff Callaway, a member of the Wildrose party executive, says regardless of what happens with its elected members, the party will live on.<\/p>\n

He says it would be profoundly disappointing for MLAs to cross to another party for the sake of their own political self-preservation.<\/p>\n

But he says the party’s fundraising is strong and there’s a good constituency association roster, meaning the party will run a slate of candidates in the next election.<\/p>\n

Callaway says the party still has more than 21,000 members.<\/p>\n

A document leaked to the media outlining the conditions of any merger states that since Prentice has adopted many Wildrose fiscal accountability measures, it would make sense for the two right-of-centre parties to join.<\/p>\n

The document also promises that floor-crossing Wildrosers would be allowed to keep their seats and would get the premier’s endorsement for a PC nomination to run in the next election, slated for the spring of 2016.<\/p>\n

NDP Leader Rachel Notley said the document suggests the Wildrosers are less concerned with ideology and more concerned with keeping their seats.<\/p>\n

“On both sides, it is primarily about a bunch of folks that want to keep their jobs, whether you’re talking about Tories or Wildrosers,” said Notley.<\/p>\n

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“That document does not read like a guide to grassroots democracy. That reads like a guide to clinging to power.<\/p>\n

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