Notley urges right-leaning voters to pick NDP
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley makes her way through the crowd during a rally in Edmonton on March 17, 2019.The leader of Alberta’s NDP is urging voters who chose right-leaning candidates in the past to pick her party in the April 16 provincial election.
But she says the PCs were in power too long and left working people vulnerable by not doing enough to diversify the economy.Notley’s New Democrats toppled the PCs after 44 years in power by winning a majority in the 2015 election. In the 2012 election, the Wildrose Party blew a late lead in the polls, in part, because then-party leader Danielle Smith refused to sanction a candidate who penned an anti-gay blog urging homosexuals to repent or face eternal damnation in hell’s “lake of fire.”The UCP has seen two of its Calgary candidates – Caylan Ford and Eva Kiryakos – resign over intolerant remarks on social media. Another candidate, Mark Smith, has also been criticized for past remarks about homosexuality.
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