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Gun rights. Parental control of education. Cuts to public service pay. The right to recall politicians. Defining family only as the union of a man and a woman.

Those are just a few of the draft resolutions — nearly 800 of them — considered for debate at this weekend’s United Conservative Party founding meeting in Red Deer.

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The final list of resolutions, about 250, won’t be disclosed until members and journalists get their convention packages on Friday.

But a draft list dated April 16, obtained by Postmedia, shows a virtual eruption of traditional conservative concerns and a deep desire to reverse many NDP policies.

For instance, Calgary-Hays riding demands that Alberta governments “not enact any new form of taxation without first putting the proposed tax to a general vote via a referendum.”

That’s a jab at the NDP’s carbon tax, which is the subject of other abolition resolutions.

One proposal calls for giving independent schools full authority to define education in accordance with their religious beliefs.