Alberta's Freedom Conservative Party secures cash for legislature work

Alberta’s newest political party will receive taxpayer funds to help run its one-member caucus.
The Freedom Conservative Party, led by Strathmore-Brooks MLA Derek Fildebrandt, asked for the cash Thursday at the legislative assembly’s members’ services committee.
His argument was simple: The single-MLA Liberal Party gets a leader’s allowance and research dollars, as did the Alberta Party when it was a one-man show, so his fledgling caucus should too.
Fildebrandt was origin