UCP CAUCUS REJECTS NDP REQUEST TO MAKE DETAILS PUBLIC

Members of Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s caucus have refused an Opposition NDP bid to make public details of Alberta’s $7.5-billion investment in the failed Keystone XL pipeline project. The eight members of the governing united Conservative caucus unanimously rejected an NDP motion in public accounts committee Tuesday. NDP energy critic Kathleen Ganley, who moved the motion, noted the UCP members voted it down without giving reasons. “I had hoped that some of them would have shown a deeper sense of duty to Albertans to be open, honest and transparent, but they failed on every front,” Ganley, pictured, told reporters. “This is a party that claims to be transparent and responsible stewards of the public purse.”