Notley will either be the first Alberta NDP premier to win re-election, or the first leader in the province to fail to win a renewed mandate on the first try
EDMONTON — Voters are heading to the polls in the Alberta election today and advance turnouts suggest it could be busy at the ballot boxes.
“It’s her first time, too,” Rachel Notley told reporters, before walking over to put her vote in the ballot box. “Here we go. It’s going, it’s going, it’s gone.Later Tuesday, Kenney was scheduled to make appearances in Red Deer, Alta., and Calgary. The UCP leader already voted in the advance polls. Notley, in turn, has said Kenney’s plan to freeze spending and pursue more private-care options in health would have a profound affect on students and patients.
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. “We have chosen to put a price on pollution right across the country and there are conservative politicians who are using taxpayer money to fight a price on pollution in court,” he responded. “They are using your dollars to try to make pollution free again, which makes no sense.
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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