Alberta returned to Step 1 of the plan for relaunching the economy due to a spike in COVID-19 cases, 15 United Conservative Party MLAs are publicly slamming the move.“We believe that yesterday’s announcement to move our province backwards, effectively abandoning the plan that Albertans had worked diligently over the past months to follow, is the wrong decision,” said a letter released Wednesday.The letter is mainly signed by UCP backbenchers, although house speaker Nathan Cooper and former minister Tracy Allard, who lost her position in cabinet after vacationing in Hawaii over Christmas, are also on the list.