Brian Jean's byelection win sets the stage for showdown with Alberta Premier Jason Kenney [View all]

The melodrama that is Alberta politics has just become a street brawl.

And newly elected MLA Brian Jean is bringing his brass knuckles – along with almost five-years worth of anger and resentment.

For Jean, winning the Fort McMurray-Lac La Biche byelection Tuesday night was not a means in itself but a means to an end. Namely, ending the career of Premier Jason Kenney.

It is a bizarre twist in an already twisted political landscape where Alberta's premier, once the darling of Conservatives across Canada, has been the most disliked provincial leader in the country for much of the past two years.

And now we have a UCP candidate who handily won a byelection on a campaign promise to overthrow the leader of the UCP.

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I figured he would win but was hoping against hope that there would be enough of a split among the right wing voters that the NDP might slip up the middle but no such luck.