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EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is demanding Opposition Leader Jason Kenney “come clean” with voters on a spreading controversy involving one of his leadership rivals.

The CBC, citing email correspondence, is reporting that the RCMP has taken over an investigation into allegations of fraud in the 2017 race to see who would lead what was then the new United Conservative Party.

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Kenney beat Calgary lawyer Doug Schweitzer and Brian Jean, who had been the Wildrose Party leader before it merged with the Progressive Conservatives.

Calgary businessman Jeff Callaway dropped out of the race before the vote.

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“This is a very, very serious and troubling development and it begs the question: What would Jason Kenney say if the shoe was on the other foot, if it wasn’t Jason Kenney who was being investigated?” Notley said in a speech to union workers in Calgary on Friday.