{"id":86793,"date":"2017-01-26T18:46:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T23:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=86793"},"modified":"2017-01-26T18:46:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T23:46:10","slug":"alberta-opposition-leader-open-to-merging-with-pcs-would-run-to-be-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/26\/alberta-opposition-leader-open-to-merging-with-pcs-would-run-to-be-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta Opposition leader open to merging with PCs, would run to be leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_86794\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86794\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/14572856_10154059728893716_5586646599178493030_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86794\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/14572856_10154059728893716_5586646599178493030_n.jpg\" alt=\"Brian Jean (Pictured) says he has heard from his members that small-c conservatives must unite, but not if it means the party stops listening to and acting on the wishes of the grassroots. (Photo:  Brian Jean\/ Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/14572856_10154059728893716_5586646599178493030_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/14572856_10154059728893716_5586646599178493030_n-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/14572856_10154059728893716_5586646599178493030_n-768x614.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86794\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian Jean (Pictured) says he has heard from his members that small-c conservatives must unite, but not if it means the party stops listening to and acting on the wishes of the grassroots. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/brianjeanwrp\">Brian Jean\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>EDMONTON \u2013Alberta&#8217;s Wildrose Opposition leader has opened the door to uniting with the Progressive Conservatives to end more than a decade of infighting between the centre-right parties.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Jean says he has heard from his members that small-c conservatives must unite, but not if it means the party stops listening to and acting on the wishes of the grassroots.<\/p>\n<p>Jean says if the Progressive Conservatives want to merge, he&#8217;ll seek a mandate for such a merger.<\/p>\n<p>He also says that if the Wildrose party voted to merge, he would step down and run in a leadership race this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Kenney is campaigning to be leader of the Progressive Conservatives on a pledge to merge the PCs and the Wildrose to create a new party.<\/p>\n<p>Jean says any merger would have to be done under the Wildrose umbrella to keep the party&#8217;s rules and funding in place, but he would be open to a name change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON \u2013Alberta&#8217;s Wildrose Opposition leader has opened the door to uniting with the Progressive Conservatives to end more than a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":86794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16,483],"tags":[14309,14308],"class_list":["post-86793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","category-politics","tag-brian-jean","tag-progressive-conservatives","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}