Chris Alexander speaks at 2nd anti-carbon tax rally following earlier controversy
CALGARY — Federal Conservative leadership candidate Chris Alexander returned to Alberta to speak at an anti-carbon tax rally, a week after becoming embroiled in controversy over a “lock her up” chant that began while he was addressing a similar event a week earlier.
Alexander told the crowd gathered indoors at the Westin Hotel in Calgary on Sunday that he was warned by donors, media and other “establishment types” not to come back following the attention that followed a rally against Alberta’s carbon tax at the legislature in Edmonton on Dec. 3.
Sunday’s event, like the one in Edmonton, was organized by the website Rebel Media.
“They’re kind of saying, ‘Why are you doing that? Why are you going back there?’ I’m not going to fold to a bunch of politically correct people. I’m not going to let them tell me what to say or what to think,” Alexander said in a video of the rally that was posted on Rebel Media’s website.