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A Reduction in seats? That would be a first for any modern democracy. Redistribution of seats from Rural to urban is more likely but that at the most means the seat count would remain the same. There is something to be said about 20% of the land area of your province being represented by 1 MLA.

I find it hard to believe this thread is still alive 8 months later. Nothing is changing for at least 3 more years so people just need to deal with the current situation. If oil prices recover by the time the NDP release their "election" budget then they will likely win a second term.

If they dont go higher than the 50s and the NDP havent curtailed spending in some meaningful way (total government spending in 2019 is lower than 2015) then they will lose.

If the total electricity bill per person goes up 10-20pct because of the carbon taxes (I know I am scanning and keeping a few Enmax bills for comparison purposes) that will create an unknown as to which party can better spin that issue.

I still think the best chance the NDP of repeating is to institute a 5% sales tax to add ~5B in revenue and spin it with 500mil in tax savings measure for lower income. I think everyone can see that the "Alberta Advantage" gig is up and was only propped up by revenue that shouldnt have been used in the first place.

Keep income tax rates flat or only slight modification for the high end bracket.