Preston Manning has a BA in Economics from the University of Alberta. He was born and raised in Edmonton with a father as a Premier from the time he was a baby until after he graduated university.
On a related note, Ernest Manning was actually a giant of a Premier that not too many Albertans know about. Led the province from '43-'68 and oversaw staggering changes in almost every way imaginable. He wasn't the wacko that Bill Aberhart was and abandoned the social credit ideology completely, he purged the anti-semitic elements from the party, won seven consecutive majorities, usually with 50% of the vote and rarely facing much of any opposition. He made Ralph Klein look like an amateur on that front. The revenues from the oil fields that started booming in the late 40s were put into expanding education, health care and transportation infrastructure that modernized Alberta. There was little corruption and huge annual surpluses most years coupled with low taxes.
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