United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney speaks to supporters in Medicine Hat on Monday (CHAT News Today/Scott Roblin)

By rdnewsNOW staff

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Kenney pledges to put ‘Turn off the Taps’ law into effect

Apr 8, 2019 | 1:12 PM

MEDICINE HAT, AB — United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney says if he elected, his party will put the law into effect allowing Alberta to “turn off the taps” to British Columbia.

Kenney made the announcement during a campaign stop in Medicine Hat Monday afternoon.

He says, if the party is elected on April 16, within the first hour of power, the party will hold a cabinet meeting to put Bill 12 into law. The law would allow the provincial government to cut oil shipments to British Columbia.

The law was created and passed by the NDP government last year in response to a dispute between Alberta and British Columbia over the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion.

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“In recent days, lower mainland BC has been paying through the nose for gasoline,” Kenney said. “Unless John Horgan ends his unconstitutional fight against Alberta energy exports, the people of BC will need to get used to paying well over $1.70/L for gas as the result of NDP anti-pipeline obstructionism.”

Kenney is headed to Red Deer County for a rally at a ranch west of Sylvan Lake at 5 p.m.

More to come.

(with file from CHAT News Today – Charles Lefebvre)