“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.
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Here’s how stupid modern Canadian politics has become.
We live in a country where the loudest people scream “eat the rich” cheer when Teslas get vandalized, foam at the mouth over billionaires, rail against corporations, blame the elites for everything, and posture endlessly about justice, equity and the little guy.
And then they turn around and vote for a Davos banker.
Not a welder. Not a builder. Not a farmer. Not a small business owner. Not even some old school liberal who still vaguely pretends to care about the working class. No, they handed the country to a global finance creature who parachuted into Canadian politics from the stratosphere, grabbed the wheel, and started pulling levers on behalf of the exact class of people liberals claim to hate.
That’s the joke. That’s the scam.
The same people who want to burn symbols of wealth voted for a man who practically is a symbol of transnational wealth. A banker. A globalist. A man marinated in elite institutions. A man whose instincts, loyalties and ...