Alberta Votes Postmortem: Janet Brown & Jason Markusoff

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We’re recording this one 2 days post the UCP majority victory in Alberta. And while that result may have been a shock to some, it was not a shock to me, based on what I was observing as the campaigns wound into their last couple of weeks.

We’re gonna break it all down today, doing a retrospective anatomy of the campaign. Who voted for who and why? What ended up mattering most to the electorate? What didn’t matter. And then we’ll speculate just a bit on the possible futures for Smith, the UCP, Notley and the NDP.

Helping me do that, 2 pair of highly analytical, Alberta boots on the ground:

Jason Markusoff, making his debut on The Herle Burly! Jason has been writing about Alberta for nearly 2 decades with Maclean’s, the Calgary Herald and Edmonton Journal. He’s currently at the CBC as a producer and writer … and appears regularly on Power and Politics’ Power Panel, and various other CBC current affairs shows.

And then, it’s our most excellent friend of the show, 4-time Herle Burly guest (she’s almost a squatter here, godammit!) … Janet Brown. Janet is the Principal of Janet Brown Opinion Research, based in Calgary. She’s been examining and tracking public opinion in Alberta for over 25 years. There’s simply no voice I trust more on what going on in the province.

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