Carbon tax's, dental care and drug injection sites included
The second line of the provincial NDP constitution states:
“The Party shall constitute a section of the New Democratic Party of Canada.”
Clear enough. The Alberta party is a junior partner — one section — of a national movement.
Buy an Alberta membership, and you’re signed on with Singh’s party as well.
The Alberta party rules also say no bylaws may contradict “the constitution of the New Democratic Party of Canada.”
It seems the Alberta party would violate BOTH constitutions by declaring independence.
This is messy enough from a technical standpoint, but even worse as an internal NDP conflict.
Just days before the leadership vote on June 22, former Premier Rachel Notley surprised nearly everyone when she told me that any plan to separate is “silly, shortsighted, superficial.”
She said there was room to talk about how the parties work together but rejected “this idea of denouncing the federal NDP.”
https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/braid-alberta-ndp-jagmeet-singh-federal-party