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Donna Marie Kennedy-Glans (born 5 May 1960) is a Canadian politician who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the electoral district of Calgary-Varsity from April 2012 to May 2015. She was elected initially as a member of the Progressive Conservative caucus, and chaired the all-party Standing Committee on Resource Stewardship. On 13 December 2013, she was sworn into the Cabinet of Alberta to fill the newly created post of Associate Minister – Electricity and Renewable Energy.

On 25 October 2012, Kennedy-Glans was one of eight PC MLA and cabinet members who accompanied then Premier Allison Redford on a flight in a government fleet aircraft to attend a PC party fundraiser in Grande Prairie on 25 October 2012. In his 2014 report, then provincial Auditor General Merwan Saher found Redford's use of government fleet aircraft for partisan purposes to be inappropriate.

Kennedy-Glans announced that she was resigning from cabinet and leaving the PC caucus to sit as an independent on 17 March 2014, in protest against the leadership of Alison Redford. She officially rejoined the PC caucus on 17 September 2014, after Jim Prentice assumed the leadership of the party.

Kennedy-Glans declared as a candidate for the leadership of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party. She withdrew her candidacy in a letter to supporters on 8 November 2016, following the party's Annual General Meeting, saying: "Right now, politics in Alberta is polarizing and there is limited opportunity for centrist voices to be heard." Following Jason Kenney's Progressive Conservative leadership victory Kennedy-Glans announced, that 10 days prior to the vote, she had been named to his transition team.

Election results

References

1. Alberta Election 2012: Riding-by-riding results. The Globe and Mail, 23 April 2012.
2. "Calgary-Varsity - CBC News | Elections Alberta - Divisions". Archived from the original on 6 May 2015.
3. "Alberta's Redford shakes up cabinet". Global News. 13 December 2013. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
4. "Alberta Cabinet swearing-in ceremony - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
5. ^ "Redford's 'aura of power' led to misuse of public money, Alberta AG says". CBC. 7 August 2014. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
6. "Alberta PC associate minister Donna Kennedy-Glans quits in another blow to Alison Redford’s already shaky leadership". National Post, 17 March 2014.
7. "Kennedy-Glans returns to Alberta PC caucus". Global News. 17 September 2014. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
8. Bennett, Dean (8 November 2016). "Two female candidates quit Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership race". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
9. "Battle for the centre: After Kenney's unite-the-right win, where will progressives go?". CBC. 20 March 2017. Retrieved 2 May 2017.

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