In a day of last-ditch Alberta election endorsements, former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi backed NDP Leader Rachel Notley on Friday while former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper urged voters a second time to step up for the United Conservatives' Danielle Smith.
"On the balance of probabilities, the platform for the NDP is better than the platform for the UCP, but that's not the critical thing to make a decision on," Nenshi, with Notley beside him, told reporters in Calgary."There's an enormous risk in returning Danielle Smith. She is someone that cannot be trusted, and I hate saying that. I've known her for 30 years.
Smith noted she also has the endorsement of current federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and urged her supporters to keep working with polls suggesting a tight race.In recent days, Notley has been receiving endorsements from high-profile Alberta conservatives, including former Progressive Conservative cabinet ministers along with Blake Pedersen, who once followed Smith in a massive 2014 floor crossing of the Wildrose caucus to the PCs.
Griffiths said he, too, is an Alberta Party supporter but is lending his vote to the NDP as his riding does not have an Alberta Party candidate. "If people don't coalesce around the New Democrats, we're going to get Danielle Smith and Take Back Alberta, and to me this is one of those cases where you need to make a strategic vote."
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