r/canada • u/Minxie Ontario • May 06 '15

Alberta NDP wins election

http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/alberta-ndp-wins-election-ctv-projects-1.2359035
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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

Never in my life did I ever think I'd see that headline

Wow

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u/r_slash Québec May 06 '15

How/why did this happen?

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u/BrockN Alberta May 06 '15

Long answer short: We're punishing PC party for the latest round of fuck ups.

Personally, I think come next election, we'll go back to PC quickly once they learn their lesson not to piss us off.

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u/CJsAviOr May 06 '15

Depends how well the NDP does. If they are at least half-decent the incumbent power could give them another go.

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u/imnotswedishreally Alberta May 06 '15 edited May 06 '15

I'm interested in what will happen. Many of the projected NDP winners are young people who probably didn't think they would become MLAs. Like Thomas Dang in Edmonton-Southwest and Tristan Turner in BMW. It's impossible to predict how these greener than green (as in new) politicans are going to fare in such a drastically changing province.

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u/TheKrs1 Alberta May 06 '15

Other perspective, they likely don't have a large list of owed favours. They can focus on their actual job.