Alberta’s former premier has a brand new place as a senior adviser to a Calgary-based legislation agency. Jason Kenney made the announcement on social media on Wednesday.
“More than happy to affix Bennett Jones as Senior Advisor within the Public Coverage Group,” he tweeted. “I look ahead to working with a distinguished group of former elected officers and public servants.”
Chairman and CEO Hugh MacKinnon stated Kenney will improve the general public coverage group of the century-old legislation agency with places of work throughout the nation and in the US.
“He brings a rare mixture of management and public coverage expertise to the agency and our shoppers,” MacKinnon stated in an announcement.
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Kenney stated his affiliation with the legislation agency was reviewed by the ethics commissioner and located to be in step with the Conflicts of Curiosity Act. He added that he would solely settle for posts that match related statutes and pointers.
“I can’t be concerned in lobbying the Alberta authorities or its companies,” Kenney wrote.
Kenney stepped down as MLA for Calgary-Lougheed in November 2022 in an announcement expressing concern “that our democratic life is transferring away from unusual prudential debate to a polarization that undermines our elementary establishments and ideas.”
In Could 2022, Kenney gained a small vote of confidence from members of the United Conservative Social gathering with 51.4 %. However that night time he introduced that he would step down as chief.
Kenney’s resignation as MLA on the finish of 2022 capped 25 years of expertise in elected authorities.
He was first elected to the Home of Commons in 1997 as a 29-year-old member of the Opposition Reform Social gathering.
From 2008 to 2015 he was a minister for 3 portfolios after which left federal politics to turn out to be chief of the Progressive Conservatives in March 2017. In October 2017, Kenney was elected chief of the newly shaped UCP.
Following Kenney’s resignation, Danielle Smith gained the UCP management vote on the sixth poll and was sworn in as premier in October 2022.
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