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A former Alberta Tory cabinet minister who has clashed with Jason Kenney in the past wants the MP barred from seeking the Progressive Conservative leadership.

Kenney, the Conservative MP for Calgary Midnapore, is considering a run for the PC leadership in a bid to bring together Alberta’s conservatives from the PC and Wildrose parties.

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But former deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk said the PC party executive should pull Kenney’s party membership to prevent him from running.

“I find it really troublesome from many, many perspectives. I firmly believe, frankly, the PC party should not allow him to be a candidate,” Lukaszuk, who lost his Edmonton seat in the 2015 provincial election, said in an interview Monday.

There is no love lost between Kenney and Lukaszuk, who as ministers were at odds over Alberta’s demand for more immigrants to the province. In a 2012 email to another Conservative MP that became public, Kenney described Lukaszuk as a “complete and utter a–hole.”