Tell us it could never happen . . . .  first we have Andrew Scheer on the   
   federal front - suckled at one breast of Stephen Harper and now Jason Kenney,   
   who suckled on the other breast.  A dictatorial leadership style?   How could   
   that happen?   
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   thestar - Fri., Jan. 4, 2019   
      
   Seventeen members of United Conservative Party constituency association resign   
   over failed ‘grassroots guarantee’   
      
   EDMONTON—Seventeen members of a United Conservative constituency association   
   in Calgary have resigned because of what the former president describes as   
   “dictatorial” leadership that betrays the party’s grassroots beginnings.   
      
   In a letter to party leadership Thursday, the president of the association for   
   Calgary-Falconridge blasts the party for not consulting with the association   
   enough, saying its members were left out of decisions about memberships and   
   nomination candidates,    
   prompting the mass exodus.   
      
   “Instead of grassroots participation, we have suffered from top-down   
   dictatorial behaviour on the part of party officials and employees,” writes   
   president Raman Seetal in the letter.   
      
   UCP Leader Jason Kenney has previously said that he wanted the direction of   
   the party to be fuelled by the grassroots members and not by party leadership,   
   calling it the “grassroots guarantee.”   
      
      
   https://www.thestar.com/calgary/2019/01/04/seventeen-members-of-   
   nited-conservative-party-constituency-association-resign-over-fa   
   led-grassroots-guarantee.html   
      
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