Opinion: What happens to moderate conservatives in Alberta?

The end of the “progressive” Conservative Party in Alberta, caused by possibly uniting with the Wildrose party to form the United Conservative Party is reminiscent of a similar demise of the “Progressive” Conservative party nationally.
Both did this to unite two parties and both seem likely to have their policies now moving away from much of the moderate approaches the progressives in these parties had in place in years gone by.
In Alberta, this also seems to end the exis