Former Alberta Premier Jim Prentice was killed along with three other people in a plane crash near Kelowna, British Columbia on Thursday. Prentice was 60.
Prentice was a prominent cabinet minister in the Conservative government of Stephen Harper and was thought of as a possible successor. Instead, Prentice left for provincial politics and won the leadership of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party in September 2014. Shortly thereafter, Prentice persuaded a majority of the opposition Wildrose Party to cross the floor to join his government.
Eight months later, Prentice led the Tories to defeat ending the party's 44 -year dynasty. Rachel Notley and the NDP took power. Prentice's passing hit home for Notley's whose father Grant (also an NDP leader) was killed in a plane crash in 1984.
Prentice undoubtedly had much more to offer Canada and I'm sure he had plans. But life has an unfortunate way of intervening.
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