Voting for the preferential ballot will close at noon on Saturday, with the first results being revealed at 2 p.m.
WATCH: The Alberta NDP will name its new leader on June 22, a day after outgoing leader Rachel Notley ’s farewell gala in Calgary. Former Alberta cabinet minister and NDP MLA Deron Bilous joins Global News Morning Calgary to talk about what’s ahead for the party.She says the party is the strongest it’s been in its history.
The New Democrats swept to power as a majority government in 2015, ending a four-decade Progressive Conservative dynasty. “She went from four seats to 54 in 2015. She now has led the NDP to the biggest opposition in Alberta history. She’s grown the party in Edmonton, where it was already strong, grown it in Calgary and in some areas around Calgary and Edmonton,” Williams said.
She announced in January she was leaving the job, after the party lost its second consecutive election to the United Conservative Party.Foreign nationals can no longer apply for work permits at the U.S.-Canada borderA record 85,000 members are set to pick a new leader out of four candidates on Saturday, with the NDP hosting their Leadership Premiere event at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Calgary.
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