Quote (StayPositive @ May 5 2015 11:20pm)
So long redneck Alberta image.
Calgary with North America's first and only Muslim mayor.
Alberta elects a very left party.
Haaa.
One election means very little especially when you look at the context. First of all, the Alberta moderate and right underwent a schism when the PC party fragmented with the rise of the Wildrose party. As the only major party for 40 years these things tend to happen, especially with poor leadership and inept policies. Same thing happened in Japan in the 1990s when the only party who ever won a election after WW2 fragmented.
Second of all, Rachel Notley is a moderate. A slightly left leaning moderate, but she still supports big oil, her corporate tax plan isn't as drastic as either its opponents or proponents believe, and she may or may not have similar views on the environment to outgoing PCs. If she was actually left, she wouldn't have won. I'd say overall that the Alberta NDP party is about the same spectrum wise as the national liberal party. Thomas Mulcair actually doesn't get along with Notley because she's not very left. He literally didn't do anything to help her this election which is very strange.
My two cents is she'll be like Bob Rae. One and done then we go back to a likely rejuvenated and whole PC party.