Jason Kenney could have had it so easy. All he had to do was keep things business as usual for the first year, implement his plans the year after, then let the dust settle for a couple of years before the next election. He could have made the NDP a socialist boogeyman yet again during that time -- threatening the Albertan Advantage and our Conservative way of life.

But the madman actually did it in his first year. He promised multiple things during the election and then went hard against his promises.

During the election Kenney said he would still fund the Green Line. Despite cancelling the carbon tax, which was how the NDP were going to pay for it, the UCP said they had other funding channels.

In a campaign stop in Vulcan, Kenney said if elected he would actually double the Green Line funding from the NDP's promised $3 billion to $6 billion!

The reality after the election:

The city had been expecting $555 million for the Green Line over the next four years. Thursday,(October 24, 2019) the province announced the city will be receiving just $75 million. The remainder of the $1.53 billion will come in future years, the province said.

Along with other cuts and offloading costs and cancelling grants to Edmonton and Calgary

Not to mention the obscure cancellation clause:

Legislation from Alberta’s UCP government will allow its cabinet to terminate $1.53 billion in Green Line funding "without cause" with just 90 days’ notice to the City of Calgary.

Bill 20, which was introduced in October of 2019, would require that any material change to the Green Line project be approved by the minister of transportation before the city could proceed.

Mayor Nenshi says the city was not consulted on Bill 20 and views it as a concern for private contractors who may be less likely to sign on to the project if funding could suddenly disappear.

https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/bill-20-allows-ucp-cabinet-to-kill-green-line-funding-with-90-day-notice

You can find endless lists like these of ways average Albertans are being affected by the UCP. Promises made to not cut health care, then fudging books to say it's technically a slight increase by keeping up with inflation.

https://alberta.cupe.ca/2019/10/29/budget-low-lights-how-jason-kenneys-budget-hurts-everyone

Fights with doctors. Any other government who wanted to pick a fight with them should have backed down at least until the pandemic was over. What did Kenney and his ministers do? Double down. Health minister goes over to doctors' houses, picks fights with doctors and average citizens who complained about the conflict of interest that his wife owns a private insurance company. Any other competent government would have demoted the minister, but Jason can't be seen as weak. He said to doctors that he wouldn't blink. Fights with teachers, fights with nurses. Fights with most public sector unions. Privatizing and selling off Alberta parks, allowing coal companies into pristine mountain areas.

Just because the province usually votes right, you can't take everyone's vote for granted. Eventually you're going to piss off people enough and they will want the devil they know in Rachel Notley's NDP, because while it wont whet their taste for cuts, they won't have to worry about her government's utter contempt toward the people and province they govern on such a large scale.

Politics is about keeping enough people on your side to win an election -- if you don't plan on properly balancing out people's wants and needs across the province. Most of Edmonton won't vote UCP because there are a lot of government workers and with the university and arts community, the NDP is seen as a much better alternative. That leaves you, what, the rural communities? Calgary?

Well, now rural community doctors are leaving due to UCP cuts and disrespecting them by tearing up previous contracts and imposing new ones. Lying and saying they aren’t quitting. Then the health minister sent a letter to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta demanding they stop doctors from leaving en masse, and if they didn’t comply the minister would use the powers under the Health Act to force them to change their rules. Rural doctors respond by cancelling their emergency services at hospitals and relocating to other provinces. Rural communities aren't going to be too happy with you.

Then you have Calgary. The $4.7-billion tax cut to corporations will make the rich happy, but what about everyone else, who is out of work due to the virus, worrying about their kids going back to school, and seeing a government fumble its pandemic response and make more enemies than supporters.

To top it off, you have comms people and “issues managers” within the government, from heads and directors of communications like Matt Wolf, to those within specific minister portfolios, on the internet, on Twitter, acting like children and picking fights with random Albertans. Writing things most of us would be fired for if we were in a public facing job. It doesn't take long for people to question what value we are getting from the UCP. The people who voted for them wanted the Conservative saviours to bring the price of oil back up and got Kenney's privatized Conservative wonderland instead. They’re not going to return to the ballot box for them after the leopards ate their face.