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Redford facing more criticism, riding president calls on her to quit

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Alberta Premier Alison Redford arrives at a meeting of the provincial PC Party executive in Calgary, Alta., Saturday, March 15, 2014. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

EDMONTON – Alberta Premier Alison Redford is facing more criticism from within her party ahead of a weekend meeting of Tory executives.

The president of a Progressive Conservative riding in northeast Edmonton says Redford has to resign or the party will lose the next election.

Steve Robson says Redford is an arrogant leader who doesn’t listen to her caucus and has no regard for the Tory establishment.

Redford has been under fire for taking a $45,000 trip to attend Nelson Mandela’s memorial in South Africa.

She resisted calls to pay the money back for weeks, then cut a cheque Wednesday for the expenses.

Robson says the payback was too little too late and she’s already done too much damage to the party.

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