NDP wins election in Torie-Blue Alberta

[aaronfransen]

The right-wing Tories ("Conservative Party") have held power in Alberta for 44 years.

Last night, they were tossed, coming in third.

A series of misplays and dirty tricks are what sunk them, but up until the end they saw no wrong doing.

The NDP is notoriously left-wing, so it will remain to be seen how they fare in this land of right-wing pro-business folks, however perhaps it's good to shake things up. It's hard to imagine a bigger upset in Canadian politics.

_http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-election-2015-ndp-win-a-different-kind-of-miracle-on-the-prairies-1.3062279

 

[davey72]

As with the U.S. They are all just puppets anyways. They will never follow through on the promises that got them elected. Imo.

 

[Wu Wei Wu]

It's an amazing upset. This is among the most conservative places in North America, and the NDP have taken it in an election where the Conservatives expected victory.

There's no doubting that Mulcair is an untrustworthy man, but the federal NDP and the provincial NDP are not the same. The provinces tend to have some independence.

I don't lean towards the left myself though. I expect the NDP to run Alberta toward the ground as they increase services without the money from the oil to support it and let the business culture that carried the province forward flounder. But who knows. The future is open.

I'm excited to find out either way. I hope they make the best of it and achieve something productive.

 

[davey72]

This all seems so coincidental to me. Or planned. An election was called when he clearly must have known he would lose. That with the passing of bill c-51 and the release of Omar Khadr and the Nepal putting a stop to the XML pipeline seems like a set up to me for something. There are people here that think the U.S will threaten war over this. I am not very political so could be reading things into this that aren't there.