“We’re very fortunate that over the last year we were able to replace a pro mandate or an anti-freedom person with Danielle Smith as our premier. TBA has a connection to the Ottawa occupation through Calgary regional captain Roy Beyer, who sees the coming election as a religious struggle. Roy Beyer: “This is a spiritual battle for our nation” I knew that what was happening must be God-driven, so I wanted to find out more about David.” “Very clearly there was a strong desire from Albertans, primarily rural Albertans, to get this man gone. “To me that was absolutely astonishing,” said Byfield. Some guy was running around the province causing trouble.
“Then I heard about this phenomenon in Red Deer. The final outcome, as he sees it, would be Alberta joining the United States as the 51st State. “So what I started to realize that Separatist and sovereignist sentiment was a lot higher than people were saying.”īyfield, the son of social conservative Alberta publisher Ted Byfield, published an open letter calling out Kenney in response to the panel and called for a referendum on independence. Its final recommendations alienated the Wexit movement. The Fair Deal panel, which consisted of town hall meetings across the province, set out to redefine Alberta’s place within Canada. “I’d gotten to know Drew Barnes, and what Drew Barnes was telling me about the fair deal panel was a lot different from what I read.” He had promised he was going to do a fair deal panel,” Byfield told Parker in a podcast episode titled “Faith and Sovereignty.” “The first thing I had a problem with with Jason Kenney was on autonomy. Vince Byfield, Take Back Alberta’s regional captain for Edmonton, and now member of the UCP board, says he also got involved with the group because he was alienated by Jason Kenney. So then it’s very simple, now I must act in a way that will show people that that rule cannot be violated without consequences.” And when you arrest pastors you’re messing with both my friends and my family. And underneath that is an even deeper rule. He became increasingly emotional as he went on to explain the personal aspect of his crusade against the former Premier. The reason I must keep my word is that he violated something that is sacred to me.”
“As a man of my word, I must keep my word. And I said that I would go after Jason Kenney, and I am a man of my word and that I would not rest until he wasn’t Premier anymore,” Parker tells Davies. “The reason I’m going after Jason Kenney is because he arrested Pastors. Parker then became Jason Kenney’s regional organizer for Central Alberta during his scandal-ridden leadership campaign, an experience that would eventually leave him disillusioned and angry after Kenney brought in restrictions on religious gatherings during the pandemic: He later landed a job in the Prime Minister’s Office as Stephen Harper’s regional adviser for the Prairies.įollowing a stint with the federal conservatives, Parker helped Kenney “unite the right” in Alberta as Membership Chair for the Wildrose Unity Campaign. Parker’s work history includes political staffer positions in Stephen Harper’s Prime Minister’s Office, various Conservative MP’s offices and later with Jason Kenney’s UCP leadership team.Ī graduate of Trinity Western University, Parker was also involved with the evangelical school’s Laurentian Leadership Centre, which connects ambitious young social conservatives with jobs in government.
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Parker is a professional political organizer with deep ties to the conservative establishment in Canada. David Parker: “Now I must act in a way that will show people that that rule cannot be violated”
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