The flaws of one-person-one-vote. Jason Kenney likes to say he was toppled by a coup. His complaint does have a sliver of merit. After all, his leadership was brought down by 16,660 members of the United Conservative Party in May 2022 even though, just three years before, the Kenney-led UCP captured a million votes from regular citizens to form a majority government.

Premier Jason Kenney has entered the United Conservative Party race to replace him as leader. Not as a candidate — but as a meddler. Kenney didn’t so much dive as belly-flop into the race this week, with an awkward attack on a proposal from perceived frontrunner Danielle Smith. She is championing a controversial “Alberta Sovereignty Act” that she says would allow…

This week, the campaign came to Edmonton — and more than 350 supporters came out to greet Smith and hear her inflammatory rhetoric on everything from the federal government to freedom of speech to the pandemic

Her aggressive moves in the UCP leadership race, such as proposing the Alberta Sovereignty Act, is setting off a race to the bottom.

Premier Danielle Smith. Get used to it. That appears to be where we’re headed after watching the first official leadership debate Wednesday evening in Alberta’s United Conservative Party race to replace Premier Jason Kenney. There might be seven people on the track but Smith seems to be the only one with a steering wheel — and she’s leading everybody in…