The CEO of the Alberta Prosperity Project (APP) says comments on an upcoming debate by UCP leadership candidate Leela Aheer are "misguided defamatory comments.".UCP MLA for Chestermere-Strathmore, Aheer said anyone participating in the Alberta Prosperity Project/Rebel Media debate should be "held accountable for supporting this toxic culture."."I'm not going to mince words, white supremacy, homophobia and racism have been supported and encouraged for too long in politics," Aheer stated..On Tuesday, CEO Dennis Modry sent a statement to the Western Standard about how the members of the APP and hundreds of thousands of moms, dads, grandparents, teenagers, first nations, Metis, and multi-ethnic members and genders of the APP feel insulted by the comments.."As a Jason Kenney sycophant, her vitriol emanates directly from the Kenny playbook when he stated in March this year that those who oppose his leadership are of a similar ilk as Ms. Aheer has similarly mischaracterized," Modry told the Western Standard.."Both Ms. Aheer and Mr. Kenney have failed to understand that their poor performance, lack of integrity, lying, and spineless failure to stand up for Albertans have been at the root of the APP movement.".The UCP leadership forum hosted by the APP and Rebel News is on August 25 in Edmonton. .Aheer said: "If I become leader of our party and premier of Alberta, there will be no room for those who support this agenda.".Modry said: "Lashing out at good, caring, thoughtful people who eschew many of her government’s failed policies does not justify her slanderous comments or supercilious tone, and is well beneath the dignity of anyone who seeks public office."."But since she knows she will never ascend to the premiership and is likely to lose her seat in the next election, it is understandable that she has become the UCP-Kenney attack dog. Should we be surprised that Ms. Aheer has such appalling cognitive dissonance and lack of decorum? Of course not, she is at the highest echelon of cancel culture and isolated socialist ideology, from which she refuses to be educated," Modry said..According to Modry, Aheer also falsely claimed the APP intends to become a political party from her read of the website.."Nowhere on the website or on any platform has APP ever even intimated an intention to become a political party which, once again, calls into question her integrity and cognition," Modry said.."What we have said is that the APP recommends the following documents form the basis of a unified Alberta independence-focused Party, which means independence within or without confederation, depending on the outcome of negotiations with Ottawa and the Provinces by the Alberta government at the time.".Modry says "The Alberta Prosperity Society" (APS) is a registered non-partisan, non-profit educational society, with a multi ethnic board of governors including a former first nations chief, and a first nations constitutional lawyer who govern the APP.."The APP, on the other hand, is an educational project, which purpose is to educate and unite Albertans, businesses, and organizations to protect their interests, individual freedoms, rights, prosperity, and self-determination by enabling Aberta to chart a new path forward," Modry said.."That new path forward could include independence within Canada, or untethered to Canada, subject only to the will of educated Albertans.".Modry believes Aheer owes an apology to Albertans who value their individual freedoms, rights, and prosperity.."I question whether she has the class do so. Out of respect for Ms. Aheer, and in keeping with our values of respect and integrity, I would be pleased to have a respectful conversation with her, like I did with Mr. Toews the other day."
