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The former president of the Progressive Conservative party is now running a political action committee dedicated to boosting a centrist alternative ahead of the next Alberta election.

Katherine O’Neill stepped down as president of the Alberta PC party shortly after Jason Kenney won the Tory leadership in March on a platform of uniting the PCs with the Wildrose.

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Now, with Kenney and Wildrose Leader Brian Jean attempting to bring their parties together in a new “United Conservative Party,” O’Neill says she is “done” with both the PCs and the prospective UCP.

She has signed on as executive director of “Alberta Together,” a new group aiming to “shape a centrist voice going into the 2019 election.”

“It’s getting people into a room and saying, ‘how can we get a very viable, credible, well-organized political party in the middle together and ready for 2019?’ So that people really can go to the polls and have a choice, that they can be able to vote for something, because I think it’s just so polarized right now that people aren’t sure where they want to vote,” O’Neill said in an interview Thursday.