Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley poked fun at one of her United Conservative Party opponents on Tuesday, after he criticized the party’s mathematics policy in a tweet that didn’t quite add up.
UCP candidate for Cypress—Medicine Hat. “That means it has become acceptable for children to not know 68% of the material they are taught in school,” he went on.
Her response was a joke that many Albertans will get. The late Progressive Conservative Leader Jim Prentice turned to Notley during a 2015 election debate while discussing her corporate tax rate proposal and said “I know that math is difficult.” He was accused of sexism and later lost the race.
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