The leader of the Freedom Conservative Party of Alberta is launching his party’s campaign in Calgary on Thursday morning.
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The Freedom Conservative Party (FCP), led by Derek Fildebrandt, bills itself as “a coalition of grassroots conservatives, libertarians and Alberta patriots.”
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Fildebrandt, the sitting MLA for Strathmore-Brooks, said Wednesday that he expects to field roughly 30 candidates in the election, which is set for April 16.
Fildebrandt first won his seat in the Legislature in 2015 as a member of the now-defunct Wildrose Party.
When that party merged with the Progressive Conservatives to form the United Conservative Party, he stayed in the caucus until 2017.
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He then left to sit as an Independent.
A year ago, he was told he wasn’t welcome to rejoin the UCP, and went on to establish the Freedom Conservative Party in July 2018.
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