Former PC MLAs Thomas Lukaszuk, Doug Griffiths, Teresa Woo - Paw, and Stephen Khan and current Independent PC MLA Richard Starke have been mentioned as potential candidates, though bringing in former politicians associated with
an unpopular old government might not be the best strategy for the newly rebranded party.
Following the election of the Coalition
Government in May 2010 the new Transport Secretary, Philip Hammond, announced in that summer that the
old Conservative route was to be dropped and Labour's
unpopular and flawed route would be re-heated and supported by the new Conservative majority
Government.