Independent Alberta MLAs revive PC name to create new political party

The two outcasts in Alberta’s Legislature have banded together to form a new provincial party, under the old Progressive Conservative banner.Peter Guthrie and Scott Sinclair have been sitting as Independents since the governing United Conservative Party expelled them earlier this year. Now they are preparing to revive the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, the formal name of the party that ruled the province for 43 years before the brand became synonymous with entitlement and cronyism and evolved into the UCP.