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He couldn’t believe what he was hearing from the man himself.

It would be hard for a lot of folks to believe it if they got the call.

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Former Wildrose party leader Brian Jean coming back into Alberta politics as leader of the Freedom Conservatives, a party currently led by Derek Fildebrandt.

Taking on the United Conservatives under Jason Kenney as well as the Notley NDP. Splitting the conservative vote.

To Joe Magliocca’s ears it was big news. A political bombshell.

Joe is a Calgary city councillor. As Joe tells it, at 9:26 p.m. Monday he gets a call he didn’t expect from a person he didn’t expect.

It was from Brian Jean.

After a little chit-chat, Joe says Jean got down to business.

According to the councillor, Jean tells Joe he’s going to be holding a press conference by the end of this week. He tells Joe he is going to be leader of the Freedom Conservatives, now led by Derek Fildebrandt.

“He was serious. He was dead serious. I was stunned. I was shocked,” says Joe.