Lipstick on a Pig?

“So that's why this proposal is a name change. We're not saying to formally split from the federal party, because I think there is value in being able to share it resources and share expertise between the various NDP in the country. I think that's useful,” Malkinson explained.
Despite publicly putting some distance between itself and its Ottawa cousins, the Alberta NDP has relied heavily on national NDP luminaries like Brian Topp and Nathan Rotman to run its election campaigns. Even the federal NDP’s national director Anne McGrath ran the Premier’s McDougall Centre office when Notley was premier and was the Alberta NDP candidate in Calgary-Varsity in 2019.
https://daveberta.substack.com/p/alberta-ndp-name-change-pushed-by