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Recall Gondek group planned to launch its own petition before political novice did

Recall Gondek group planned to launch its own petition before political novice did

CBC
Friday, March 29, 2024 3:20 AM GMT

The third-party group helping promote the recall campaign against Mayor Jyoti Gondek had devised plans to launch its own petition drive, as part of a broader mission to make Calgary council more conservative.

Project YYC had planned with other conservative political organizations to gather signatures demanding Calgary's mayor be removed, says group leader Roy Beyer. But their drive would have begun later in the year, when nicer weather made for easier canvassing for supporters, he said.

Those efforts were stymied when Landon Johnston, an HVAC contractor largely unknown in local politics, applied at city hall to launch his own recall drive in early February. Since provincial recall laws allow only one recall attempt per politician per term, Project YYC chose to lend support to Johnston's bid.

"Now we have to try to do door-knocking in the winter, and there's a lot of preparation that you have to contemplate prior to starting. And Landon didn't do that," Beyer told CBC News in an interview.

Project YYC has helped gather signatures, created a website and erected large, anti-Gondek signs around town. It has supplied organizational heft that Johnston admits to lacking.

Their task is daunting.

According to provincial law, in order to force a recall plebiscite to oust the mayor before the term is up, they have two months to gather more than 514,000 signatures, an amount equal to 40 per cent of Calgary's population in 2019.

They have until April 4 to collect that many signatures, and by March 21 had only 42,000.

Beyer criticizes the victory threshold for recall petition as so high that it's "a joke," and the province may as well not have politician recall laws.

So if he thinks it's an impossible pursuit, why is he involved with this?

"You can send a message to the mayor that she should be sitting down and resigning … without achieving those numbers," Beyer said.

He likened it to former premier Jason Kenney getting 52 per cent support in a UCP leadership review — enough to technically continue as leader, but a lousy enough show of confidence that he announced immediately he would step down.

Gondek has given no indication she'll voluntarily leave before her term is up next year. But she did emerge from a meeting last week with Johnston to admit the petition has resonated with many Calgarians and is a signal she must work harder to listen to public concerns and explain council's decisions.

The mayor also told the Calgary Sun this week that she's undecided about running for re-election in 2025. 

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