We learn this morning that Victor Doerksen has resigned as Alberta's minister of Innovation and Science.
Big whoop...Right? Wrong. A little digging turns up the gem that he's expected to announce his candidacy for the leadership of the Alberta PC Party.
I can only come up with a couple of possibilities for why he's running. Doerksen's a known theo-con - and a rather rabid one at that. My guess is that he either thinks that Ted Morton isn't as well supported by the religious right wing types, or he and Morton have gotten together and Doerksen's candidacy is intended to swing the discourse of debate in the PC leadership race dramatically to the right in an effort to motivate their "base" of support. (With the payoff being a cabinet seat later if Morton wins - or vice versa, no doubt)
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