Also I forgot to mention this earlier but one of the leadership candidates Jason Kenney who use to hold multiple cabinet positions while the federal conservatives were in government plans to get rid of the Alberta PC ' s by merging them with the wildrose like what happened to the federal PC ' s in 2003 which is pissing off a lot of moderates that still support the PC ' s . His goal is to win the PC leadership race , try to unite the wildrose and PC ' s in the lull between the next PC leadership race and the next provincial election and ride of wave of anger to become the next premier of Alberta and to return alberta to conservative glory . It kinda sounds like a plot out of a video gameI ' m not revealing which video game if you follow Alberta politics a lot . The problem with his plan is that uniting the parties won ' t necessarily help conservatives win back power since the PC ' s need to mostly win back city ridings in the next election which a merger wont help them win back those ridings since a jason kenney type party may be a bit to toxic in the cities for voters .