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In an eye-popping column, Brian Jean says UCP Leader Jason Kenney “is being as fiscally irresponsible as the NDP.”

Yes, that Brian Jean. The one who led Wildrose. Who then lost the UCP leadership to Kenney, but retained the loyalty of many conservative supporters.

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Jean is said to be restive about the conduct of that party leadership campaign. He isn’t talking publicly about those concerns. Not yet, anyway.

What he does talk about is Kenney’s pre-campaign promises. He’s very upset about them. Jean thinks they’re a further inflation of the NDP’s optimistic fiscal projections, which he calls “garbage.”

Jean says Kenney’s plan to sharply cut business tax will not bring economic growth.

“Kenney predicted that with his corporate tax cuts we will grow our economy by over $113 billion or 25.7 per cent in the same period (by 2024),” Jean wrote in the column, published in the Edmonton Journal.

“That’s just not possible!”