A former vice-president of Nexen, Ms. Kennedy -
Glans decision to leave the PC caucus carries a significant amount of weight in Calgary's corporate oil establishment, and her departure is a blow to Ms. Redford's party.
Her
decision is vastly more common among veteran Tory moderates: disillusioned and aware that Jason Kenney is crushing his way to control the Progressive Conservative party and marry it to the Wildrose opposition, Kennedy -
Glans and her centrist ilk will camp out on the sidelines for now, and watch how Alberta politics reorganizes on either side of them.