two words JUSTIN TRUDEAU, he is practically a celebrity, son of the most liberal of liberal PM's.
he is the favorite win the Liberal leadership race, behind Ignatiaf (sp?). If Trudeau wins leadership, I think even people in alberta will vote for him.
Of course I had to be at work today when this came up... The others have already got the reply though. Zyzzyva's was spot on. Hell will freeze over before people in Alberta vote for a political party led by a Trudeau.
Pierre Trudeau almost single handedly destroyed the Liberal Party's chances in Alberta, and that party is still toast here nearly 30 years later. The only Liberal MPs to get re-elected following Trudeau's NEP were those who were personally popular, and they could be counted on one hand, in a province that had before then had traditionally supported the Liberal party, at least at the federal level. (The provincial Liberals got turfed sometime around WWI, and haven't been let back into power since.) If the Liberals were to find someone to lead them who is not tied to the previous Liberal governments, and who is known to be honest, (or at least somewhat less dishonest than most politicians are),
and who is not someone who will simply use Alberta or "The West" as a scapegoat like so many federal politicians have in the past, then they might have a chance to start winning seats in Alberta again.
BTW, Justin Trudeau is not running for the leadership of the Liberal party at this time, thank God. Just imagine the shitstorm in both Alberta and Quebec if he were to. There is also a good reason that the Mulroney Tories swept Quebec in 1984... And in 1988... And that the BQ has been the dominant political party in that province, at the federal level anyways, since 1993.