Are we all going to find ourselves members of the UCP thanks to a stranger?

By Letter to the Editor on December 17, 2021.

Editor:
I fully expect that, by this time next month, I and everyone else I know, along with the population of half the graveyards in Alberta, will be fully paid up members of the United Conservative Party thanks to some kind stranger buying memberships in our names.
Not that we’ll know about it of course.
Under Bill 81 some public spirited citizen looking to encourage public participation in the political life of the province and, incidentally, curry a little favour with the government by throwing a whole lot of money towards the Party, can take out a membership for who and what ever they choose.
And all without the newly minted UCPer even being told.
In the open sewer that is internal party politics under the present Premier this is a fat berg the size of a blue whale drifting along, bobbing and stinking in the current.
The only thing that could make it more noxious were the upcoming leadership review to be a mail in ballot of all party members. Were that the case, I and the rest of the zombie legions would be out there, early and often, casting votes for the current leader faster than a bus load of pizza crazed sixteen year olds.
Instead, the kamikaze squad will have to be running across the meeting hall in Red Deer; changing wigs and false noses along with their delegate id cards in an effort to cast a couple of extra votes before the voting closes.
Politics. Don’t ya just love it!
Ken Sears
Lethbridge