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The United Conservative Party has launched a lawsuit against two of its former MLAs, alleging the duo and the Alberta Party have infringed on Progressive Conservative trademarks as they seek to relaunch the bygone party.<\/p>\n
Peter Guthrie and Scott Sinclair announced<\/a> plans in July to revive Alberta\u2019s Progressive Conservative party, which was in power from 1971 to 2015 before merging with the Wildrose Party to form the United Conservative Party.\u00a0<\/p>\n Later that month, Guthrie and Sinclair joined the centrist Alberta Party<\/a>, announcing a plan to rebrand it as the Progressive Conservatives.\u00a0<\/p>\n The membership of the Alberta Party voted to change the name to the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party in late August. In a statement, a spokesperson with Elections Alberta said it did not have an update on the status of that application at this time.<\/p>\n WATCH | A comeback for Alberta’s PC Party?:<\/strong> A comeback for Alberta\u2019s PC Party?<\/p>\n Two former UCP MLAs are trying to revive a political powerhouse from Alberta\u2019s past. Peter Guthrie and Scott Sinclair announced plans to relaunch the Progressive Conservative Party, saying Premier Danielle Smith has abandoned centrist conservatives and that Albertans need an alternative to what they call her increasingly extreme leadership. <\/p>\n But the United Conservative Association, which operates the UCP, claims that through its unification with the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta in 2017, it assumed ownership of that party’s \u201dnames, political party registration, brand, trademarks and goodwill.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe efforts [by the Alberta Party] \u2026 constitute passing-off and are plainly intended to capitalize on and usurp the goodwill and reputation that the PCAA and, in turn, the United Conservative Association have nurtured with Albertans for decades and continues to nurture today,\u201d reads a statement of claim filed Nov. 7 in the Court of King\u2019s Bench of Alberta.<\/p>\n The party is suing the Alberta Party Political Association, its president Lindsay Amantea, as well as Guthrie and Sinclair. The lawsuit was first reported on by the Globe and Mail.<\/p>\n “The United Conservative Association has suffered damages \u2014 including harm to its goodwill and reputation \u2014 as a result of the defendants passing-off on the PCAA name and associated goodwill,\u201d the lawsuit reads.<\/p>\n Guthrie and Sinclair weren\u2019t immediately available for comment Monday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Rebrand attempt ‘misleading’: UCP<\/p>\n Guthrie, a former Alberta cabinet minister under Smith, was removed from the UCP in April<\/a> after pushing for a public inquiry into health contracting.\u00a0<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763430077_229_default.jpg\")
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