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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Did the NDP even have any support in rural Alberta to lose?
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That's the thing. Mainstreet's December 7 poll showed that no age group in the province supported Bill 6, Calgary and rural Alberta wildly opposed it, and even Edmonton only managed an even 50% supporting. Notley's handling of this hurt her everywhere.
There are other factors at play, of course. Governments always drop a bit shortly after elections, and governments always pay for economic downturns. So even if you don't think she's making things worse via policy, our recession was going to hurt her anyway. Add in things like the energy minister's flippant dismissal of people who have been forced out of work, and the NDP have pretty much spent the entire fall session fighting fires they lit themselves.