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Premier Notley Condemns Federal Party Policy

Apr 12, 2016 | 6:08 AM

EDMONTON: N-D-P Premier Rachel Notley is condemning the federal party’s plan to consider dramatic policy changes that would have huge implications for her energy-reliant province.

Notley says the Leap Manifesto’s proposal to ban new pipelines is thoughtless, naive, ill-formed and tone-deaf.

However, Notley is not looking to split off her provincial party from the federal N-D-P, saying instead the Alberta wing will make its points from within the party.

On the weekend, delegates at the federal N-D-P party convention in Edmonton voted to discuss the Leap Manifesto and its policy implications at the constituency level.

It suggests Canada should get all of its electricity from renewable resources within two decades and be completely off non-renewables by 2050.

Notley has been working to drum up support to get a pipeline built to get Alberta’s oil to Canadian ports for a better price on the world market.