Voters will hit the polls Monday in what is expected to be a tight race between Alberta’s United Conservatives and New Democrats
Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley made one final pitch to voters Sunday to upend Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party government and deliver an upset win in the provincial election.
Smith was not made available to reporters Sunday and made a last push to hundreds at a rally in Calgary on Thursday. Smith has promised to keep Alberta the lowest tax regime in Canada. Another term for a UCP government, she said, would see the introduction of a law to mandate a binding referendum before any personal or corporate income tax hikes. There would also be tax changes to benefit those making more than $60,000 a year, at a cost of $1 billion annually to the treasury.
Polls show trust is a also key issue, with Notley viewed more favourably than her party and vice versa for Smith. It won government in 2015 aided substantially by vote splitting between the governing Progressive Conservatives and the Opposition Wildrose Party. The PCs and Wildrose joined forces to create the UCP in 2017 and under Jason Kenney captured 63 seats and a majority – over Notley’s 24 seats for the NDP – in 2019.
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