RED DEER, Alberta—In one of his last public talks to conservatives as premier of Alberta, Jason Kenney defended his government’s record, saying he fulfilled the vast majority of his platform promises.
“We have implemented completely or substantially 90 percent of those 367 platform commitments,” Kenney said at the Canada Strong and Free Networking Conference in Red Deer on Sept. 24.
Listing some of these items, Kenney said his government brought in school choice policy which allowed for the creation of more chartered schools in the province, introduced a “recovery-oriented” approach to deal with substance abuse and addiction which he said has delivered better results than B.C.’s “harm-reduction” approach, and implemented other “significant policy reform” whose benefits “you’re now beginning to see.”…