Strong and Free
Ted Morton has spent 30 years in Alberta politics. He was elected as a Reform Party senator-in-waiting in the 1998 Alberta Senate election. In 2001, Stockwell Day appointed him as Parliamentary Director of Policy and Research for the federal Canadian Alliance Party in Ottawa. From 2004-2012, Ted rep...
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| description | Ted Morton has spent 30 years in Alberta politics. He was elected as a Reform Party senator-in-waiting in the 1998 Alberta Senate election. In 2001, Stockwell Day appointed him as Parliamentary Director of Policy and Research for the federal Canadian Alliance Party in Ottawa. From 2004-2012, Ted represented Foothills-Rocky View in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. During these years, he also served in cabinet as Minister of Finance, Minister of Energy, and Minister of Sustainable Resources Development. In 2006 and again in 2011, Morton ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for the leadership of the Progressive Conservatives. In Strong and Free, Ted Morton shares the lessons learned from this journey, both his successes and his disappointments. Informed by his background as professor of political science, Morton recounts his early involvement with Preston Manning and the Reform Party, his friendship with Stephen Harper, and the infamous Alberta Agenda or Firewall Letter of 2001. He explains how the Progressive Conservative Party’s flawed leadership selection process eroded party support, and how the PC’s refusal to acknowledge and accommodate the growth of Albertans’ support for the federal Reform Party led to vote splitting with the Wild Rose Party and the end of the PC dynasty in 2015. Openly discussing his conservative ideological principles and goals, Morton provides an account of thirty years of Alberta politics as seen from the inside by someone who reached for the top—and almost made it. Strong and Free argues that an independent, prosperous Alberta makes a strong and prosperous Canada. Ted Morton has spent thirty years fighting for both. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1671482025-10-16T12:43:13Z Strong and Free Morton, Ted Autobiography politics alberta politics alberta conservative progressive conservative party wild rose party united conservative party conservative party preston manning stockwell day stephen harper jason kenney danielle smith ed stelmach western alienation alberta alienation western separatism the calgary school thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DNB Biography: general::DNBM Biography: philosophy and social sciences::DNBM1 Autobiography: philosophy and social sciences thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPR Regional, state and other local government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPL Political parties and party platforms thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPF Political ideologies and movements::JPFM Right-of-centre democratic ideologies Ted Morton has spent 30 years in Alberta politics. He was elected as a Reform Party senator-in-waiting in the 1998 Alberta Senate election. In 2001, Stockwell Day appointed him as Parliamentary Director of Policy and Research for the federal Canadian Alliance Party in Ottawa. From 2004-2012, Ted represented Foothills-Rocky View in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. During these years, he also served in cabinet as Minister of Finance, Minister of Energy, and Minister of Sustainable Resources Development. In 2006 and again in 2011, Morton ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for the leadership of the Progressive Conservatives. In Strong and Free, Ted Morton shares the lessons learned from this journey, both his successes and his disappointments. Informed by his background as professor of political science, Morton recounts his early involvement with Preston Manning and the Reform Party, his friendship with Stephen Harper, and the infamous Alberta Agenda or Firewall Letter of 2001. He explains how the Progressive Conservative Party’s flawed leadership selection process eroded party support, and how the PC’s refusal to acknowledge and accommodate the growth of Albertans’ support for the federal Reform Party led to vote splitting with the Wild Rose Party and the end of the PC dynasty in 2015. Openly discussing his conservative ideological principles and goals, Morton provides an account of thirty years of Alberta politics as seen from the inside by someone who reached for the top—and almost made it. Strong and Free argues that an independent, prosperous Alberta makes a strong and prosperous Canada. Ted Morton has spent thirty years fighting for both. 2025-10-16T12:43:12Z 2025-10-16T12:43:12Z 2025-10-06T11:26:48Z 2024 book ONIX_20251006T132422_9781773856711_4 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/106297 9781773856711 9781773855967 9781773855998 9781773855981 https://admin.directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/167148 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/106297/1/9781773856711.pdf University of Calgary Press Bighorn Books 388fac32-9167-49a8-bb2b-bc9412a7d937 9781773856711 9781773855967 9781773855998 9781773855981 Bighorn Books 366 Calgary open access |
| spellingShingle | Autobiography politics alberta politics alberta conservative progressive conservative party wild rose party united conservative party conservative party preston manning stockwell day stephen harper jason kenney danielle smith ed stelmach western alienation alberta alienation western separatism the calgary school thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DNB Biography: general::DNBM Biography: philosophy and social sciences::DNBM1 Autobiography: philosophy and social sciences thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPR Regional, state and other local government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPL Political parties and party platforms thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPF Political ideologies and movements::JPFM Right-of-centre democratic ideologies Morton, Ted Strong and Free |
| title | Strong and Free |
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| topic | Autobiography politics alberta politics alberta conservative progressive conservative party wild rose party united conservative party conservative party preston manning stockwell day stephen harper jason kenney danielle smith ed stelmach western alienation alberta alienation western separatism the calgary school thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DNB Biography: general::DNBM Biography: philosophy and social sciences::DNBM1 Autobiography: philosophy and social sciences thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPR Regional, state and other local government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPL Political parties and party platforms thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPF Political ideologies and movements::JPFM Right-of-centre democratic ideologies |
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