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Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang
I get that the spectrum in Alberta is heavily tilted to the right, but the NDP is only far left if you remove.... basically the entire left. Anyone who honestly says that they are a centrist in Alberta would not touch the UCP with a thirty foot pole.
I would even argue that the NDP is basically a Lougheed-era Progressive Conservative party. The conservative movement in Canada, both the UCP and CPC, have taken hard turns to the right post-mergers, leaving the centre (and even the centre-right) behind.
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I remember reading something (so don't take this as anything researched) about Grant Notley's NDP in that one of the biggest challenges he faced was how many of his ideals and policies were mirrored by Lougheed, so it was difficult to gain traction as an opposition party. They definitely had differences, but they were more alike than not.
When I looked at the 2015 NDP's election, a lot of their platform at the time felt like Lougheed era policies and ideals. They are not the same, but I would say the ANDP are as far left of centre as the Lougheed PCs were right of centre.. and that's not a whole lot.
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