Voters are heading to the polls in the Alberta election today and advance turnouts suggest it could be busy at the ballot boxes.
Almost 700,000 people voted early in malls, airports, recreation centres, public buildings and even an Ikea store. That was well ahead of the 235,000 who came out early in the 2015 election that saw Rachel Notley's NDP deliver a surprise knockout blow to the 44-year run of the Progressive Conservatives.The PCs merged with another right-centre party, the Wildrose, to create the new United Conservatives under former federal cabinet minister Jason Kenney.
Notley, in turn, has said Kenney's plan to freeze spending and pursue more private-care options in health care will have a profound impact on students in the classroom and on patients waiting for care. She said Kenney's promise to challenge Trudeau in court on everything from the federal carbon tax to proposed energy industry rule changes is cynical, self-defeating shadow-boxing given the collaborative realities of political decision-making.
Kenney has called the attacks a "fear-and-smear" red herring to distract from the NDP's economic track record of multibillion-dollar budget deficits and soaring debt.
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