Can't seem to copy and paste now for some reason, but from the latest article on CBC about this whole shitshow, it basically says "in her resignation letter as Wildrose leader, Smith asked the party to hold a membership meeting and pass a reunification resolution". Same thing she said in the news conference. No timelines given as to how or when this would happen.
At least when the Progressives and the Conservatives got together in the 20's (I think), or even more recently with Reform and the fed Conservatives, they at least had the common decency to call it a merger and give the offspring a new name.
Nope, nope and nope. Reunification under the PC name.
I think the punchline goes something like this:
"So, basically, we were hardcore Conservatives who felt the Conservatives weren't Conservative enough, so we started up our own Conservative party, but hey, they got this wicked way cool new Conservative leader who is as Conservative as it gets, so now that the Conservatives are back to being Conservatives we are too, and we want everybody who followed us to this new party to follow us back to the old party, because reasons".
I somehow doubt this argument is going to win over many of the southern Albertans who have been the stronghold and backbone of the Wildrose party, but I guess after recent events anything is possible in this province.