When Jason Kenney was leaving Parliament Hill in September 2016, he granted me one his last interviews. We sat down, cameras running in the library of the old press building in Ottawa and one of my questions is why he wasn’t running for federal leader.
His answer then is the same as his answer now, he’s not interested.
Yet, now Kenney can’t even post about supply management without some taking that as a cue that he’s clearly looking to unseat Pierre Poilievre.
That doesn’t come from Poilievre himself or his team, this is all part of the online rumour mill from Poilievre’s online supporters. Funny thing, I’ve been asking Kenney about this idea that he’ll seek the federal leadership since they started surfacing just after the last federal election and his answer hasn’t changed - no thank you.
What funny is that after I kept being told by person after person that not only was Kenney running but that Kory Teneckye was running his campaign, I spoke to both of them about that. They both laughed out loud, in separate conversations, because neither one had ever heard that claim before.
Hopefully, Kenney’s latest comments, the Politico story about them, and this video, help stop the rumours.
We’ll see.
