Monday 8 April 2019

NDP attacks UCP over house leader’s ‘troubling past’


The Alberta election got a little more heated on Sunday when the NDP accused the United Conservatives of hiding the “unacceptable behaviour” of Jason Kenney’s chief spokesperson Jason Nixon.

In a release, the NDP said it had documents that showed Nixon was involved in a serious incident back in 2009 involving a woman in Cremona.

The incident was reported in local media at the time and charges against Nixon were later dropped.

But now the New Democrats are again bringing up the decade-old incident and have even produced a video interviewing the complainant.

That complainant, Alison Gentry, says she encountered Nixon and four other individuals who were allegedly trespassing on her property on November 6, 2009.

In a victim impact statement filed in court Gentry said noticed the group, all of whom she said were armed, while she was patrolling her land.

Without leaving her vehicle, she informed the group that they were trespassing and there was no hunting allowed on the property.

She says the group left their guns by a fencepost and began to clear away a deer they’d shot, at which point Gentry used her cellphone to attempt to take photos of the men.

When the unnamed driver noticed, he got out of the truck and she claims he became aggressive.

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