You heard it here first. We are about to see the disintegration of Federal N.D.P. as they revert back to left wing environmental extremism. And my guess is that the Provincial N.D.P. in Alberta will be following suit after the next election. With the call for adoption of the LEAP Manifesto which is about as anti-energy as you can get, Rachel Notley has essentially been stabbed in the back by her Federal Party (cough cough) allies.
And while she is right, it is now obvious that her party has been put between a rock and a hard place. With lagging popularity in the polls she has made a desperate plea to Canada's Prime Minister to help in getting Pipelines built so that Alberta can get its oil to market and the economy can rebound. This sudden shift comes with the reality that the N.D.P. is now in deep trouble in Alberta.
What we are going see unfold over the next few years will be the decimation of the NDP at a federal level and return to status of fringe. I would also go so far as to predict that Notley, much like Former Ontario Premier Bob Rae, will have her walking papers after the next federal election and that the bulk Alberta's Provincial N.D.P. MP's will follow suit.
Notley sated publicly, “These ideas will never form any part of policy. They are naive. They are ill-informed. They are tone deaf.”
And while she is right, it is now obvious that her party has been put between a rock and a hard place. With lagging popularity in the polls she has made a desperate plea to Canada's Prime Minister to help in getting Pipelines built so that Alberta can get its oil to market and the economy can rebound. This sudden shift comes with the reality that the N.D.P. is now in deep trouble in Alberta.
Notley stopped short of saying she would seek to split the Alberta wing of the NDP from its federal counterpart. Instead, she said, Alberta New Democrats will make their points from within the party.
“Those people that have that little (manifesto) document in front of them very possibly could have some other documents put in front of them not too long from now, so that the scope and the range and the breadth and the thoughtfulness and the information and the research behind those conversations improves substantially.”
What we are going see unfold over the next few years will be the decimation of the NDP at a federal level and return to status of fringe. I would also go so far as to predict that Notley, much like Former Ontario Premier Bob Rae, will have her walking papers after the next federal election and that the bulk Alberta's Provincial N.D.P. MP's will follow suit.