Alberta's Premier Alison Redford resigns

After some weeks, if not months of scandal and outrageous travel expenses ($45 000 for return flight to Mandela's funeral) the premier of my province has stepped down. I'll admit it caught me by surprise but now her party has 2 years to fix the damage she created until the next election rolls around (Alberta Cons down to 18% in the polls).

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Alison Redford resigning as Alberta premier Alison Redford has announced that she is stepping down as Alberta premier on Sunday night. Redford, who has been dogged by questions about her leadership, made the announcement in the rotunda of the Alberta legislature at 6 p.m. MT. She will stay on as the MLA for Calgary-Elbow "Quite simply I am not prepared to allow party and caucus infighting to get in the way of building a better future for our province and for all Albertans and that is why I am announcing today that with a profound optimism for Alberta's future, I am resigning as premier of Alberta effective this Sunday evening," she said. Redford, 49, became the province’s first female premier in October 2011 after winning the leadership of the Progressive Conservative party. She won a majority election in the April 2012 provincial election. The announcement comes as Progressive Conservative riding association presidents in Calgary planned to vote on whether Redford has lost the confidence of the membership and should be asked to resign. Redford's problems escalated last week when she announced she was paying back the entire $45,000 she spent to travel to South Africa for Nelson Mandela's memorial in December after weeks of refusing to do so. The next day, Calgary-Foothills MLA Len Webber stepped down from the PC caucus. On Monday, Donna Kennedy-Glans resigned as the associate minister for electricity and renewable energy to sit in the legislature as an independent.

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Good riddance.

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