The Alberta Prosperity Fund has generated some excitement in it's quest to unite the Wildrose and Progressive Conservative Parties. Member Dean Leask says the group's stop in High River had people coming to a clear consensus.

"It sure sounds to me like new party, new leader, new beginning. We basically put this together in two days with out any advertising or anything and we had over 80 in the room. So, I think that this thing has got legs."

The political action committee is currently on a listening tour to hear how people would like to unite Alberta's conservative voice. Leask says those in attendance talked about keeping elected MLAs as a strong base.

"I think it's good. There was mention in the room of maybe keeping existing MLAs for the two parties in place which I think is probably an ok idea. It gives us a base because when you're starting a new party you have to have a base in place, like you have to have people in place to do this kind of thing."

He was encouraged by this week's response in High River, and he hopes more Albertans will engage with the group's spokesperson Dave Rutherford.

"We really hope to engage Albertans. That's what we really hope. I want to get as many people out as we can all over Alberta and just talk to them. Dave Rutherford does such an tremendous job working a room and getting people to talk about what they want to talk about and what they think's important. And that's where we're going to start. And it may not be as quick as what we want, but we're going to make sure that it's done right."

The Alberta Prosperity Fund's mission is to unite Alberta's "common sense" vote and prevent vote-splitting in the next election.