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Alberta has another new conservative party.

It’s called the Freedom Conservative Party of Alberta or FCP.

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This party has another new conservative leader.

It’s Derek Fildebrandt.

He’s the Independent Strathmore-area MLA who was excluded from the United Conservative Party caucus and denied a nomination by leader Jason Kenney.

Anybody with the slightest knowledge of Fildebrandt had to know it wouldn’t end there.

A new party on the right was sure to form eventually with support from disaffected Wildrosers, libertarians and hard-line economic conservatives.

The animosity between Fildebrandt and Kenney just sped this up a bit.

Kenney runs a party that is “already top-down, dictatorial, meddling in local constituency nominations,” says Fildebrandt.

He calls Kenney’s outfit the Tory party because “that’s how it looks to me.”

Kenney’s response was little short of ferocious.

“We are not going to be distracted from our focus on defeating the NDP by a political vehicle designed to gratify a discredited MLA’s ego.