Ted Morton: Kenney's equalization referendum could help end unfair policy

Jason Kenney and the UCP have committed to hold a referendum to abolish or revise the federal equalization program. On Wednesday, Professors Oliver Franke and Elizabeth Smythe wrote an op-ed for the Edmonton Journal that characterized Kenney’s referendum promise as a cheap political trick “to mobilize the party’s base, misinform Albertans and stoke their hostility towards the federal government.”
While technically correct in some of their assertions, Franke and Smythe com