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The general right-wing friendliness of the movement. If not fully Russian-style kleptocratic petrostate then at least American style fascism. If the Alberta conservatives were courting European relationships that would be one thing, but it sure seems like the Alberta and Canadian conservatives in general are fellow travelers with the russo-hungaro-american-etc authoritarian nationalists.

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Literally one government ago we elected a leftist party. Separation goes back way further than Danielle Smith.

One government, but two elections and due to a split in the right. And "leftist" is... generous.

There is nothing left of the NDP except the literal communist parties that get like 0.001% of the vote... How is that not leftist?

The Alberta NDP under Notley was a centrist party and its policies were far more aligned with the federal liberals than the federal NDP. Obviously, there has been a change in leadership, but I don't see any reason to believe that the Alberta NDP will be any less centrist under Nenshi.

Having nothing on your left doesn’t make you leftist. If I drive in the right hand lane and there’s nothing on my left, I am not driving in the left hand lane.

> Literally one government ago we elected a leftist party.

Over the last (say) 50 years, how many left-leaning governments have there been in government? It's basically been right-ish since Lougheed in 1971:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_premiers_of_Alberta#Li...

Notley was in for less than four years:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_premiers_of_Alberta_by...

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