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THE BIGGEST LOSER: Alberta Election Result Sets Smith's UCP Up for a Fall
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith may have recorded a win last week, in a provincial election where scarcely 1,300 voters in six out of 87 constituencies decided the outcome. But out here in the real world, this was an election that everyone lost.
Like every political party leader anywhere who’s won a tight race in a first-past-the-post system, Smith is framing her province’s closest-ever election result as a “very strong mandate” to govern. And, in her case, to take the fight to the dreaded Liberal government in Ottawa.
But this isn’t a post about first-past-the-post (sorry, Green Party friends).
Beyond the horse race news coverage that dominated the election period and the immediate aftermath, there are no obvious winners in the Alberta vote. But Smith and her United Conservative Party (UCP) team have set themselves up to be the biggest losers of all.
That line of thought begins with a small but important shift in focus, from being committed to one party or the other to being intensely partisan for whatever is essential for the province and its population. Those priorities line up nicely with what the rest of the country needs on climate and emissions policy, and where most of the rest of the world is going on energy investment.
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