An Alberta MLA banned from the UCP caucus last year for comments comparing transgender youth to feces could soon be back in the ruling Alberta party’s fold.
Jennifer Johnson, who had won the UCP nomination the previous fall, was forced to run as an independent candidate after the comments came to light about two weeks before the 2023 provincial election.
Johnson wound up winning the Lacombe-Ponoka seat.
In the days leading up to the vote on May 29 that year, Premier Danielle Smith said the UCP’s decision to keep Johnson out of caucus was “final” after first saying she could be given a second chance.
Recently, however, Smith mused during a UCP town hall in Red Deer that Johnson could soon rejoin the UCP.
“Give her a chance to speak you know put out on the record – what she meant, what …