‘We have a path to victory, we know the areas that we can win and we know that there are enough of them that we could still win a majority government,’ Notley said
As election day loomed in Alberta, United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney spent his final days on the road in an end-of-campaign foray into Edmonton, in the hopes of balancing out a potential UCP government with more MLAs from the province’s capital.
NDP leader Rachel Notley, meanwhile, is doing her best not to lose her party’s grip on the city. At Edmonton’s Polish Hall on Sunday afternoon, Notley gave one of the final speeches of her campaign to a crowd of about 1,000 people. Then, it was off to Calgary for a Monday morning event and back again to Edmonton for an afternoon appearance.
“We have a path to victory, we know the areas that we can win and we know that there are enough of them that we could still win a majority government,” she said in a Friday interview in Canmore. The Kenney campaign kicked off Monday morning in Sherwood Park, a suburb east of Edmonton, then headed to the city’s south end for a pizza lunch with campaign volunteers. Kenney stuck around in the south end for some door-knocking after lunch, all in ridings that the campaign sees as winnable despite the iron grip Notley’s NDP asserted on the city in the 2015 election.
“At the same time, the majority of people who live in Edmonton are tied to the private sector economy,” said Kenney, in an interview with the Post. “So my pitch to the city is it’s a great, industrious city deeply connected to our resource industries. And we’ve got some great Edmonton candidates. Let’s ensure that Edmonton is a strong voice in a future government.”
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