Jason Kenney's approval rating plummets in the wake of steep Alberta budget cuts - 2019-12-12
Jason Kenney's approval rating plummets in the wake of steep Alberta budget cuts December 12, 2019,
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is feeling the political effects of budget cuts his government announced in October, with his approval rating plummeting 15 percentage points in a matter of months.
Kenney is now the third-least popular premier among the provinces included in the poll conducted by DART and Maru/Blue Voice Canada and provided exclusively to Postmedia. That's a startling drop from September when Kenney was third from the top, behind Quebec Premier François Legault and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe.
The slide in approval comes in the wake of a United Conservative government budget that plans to bring expenditures $1.3 billion below last year's spending levels. Over the next four years, the government expects to cut $4 billion worth of provincial spending.
