Nenshi's 'blunt' message to federal NDP: Don't mess this up for Alberta
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Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi has a blunt message for federal NDP leadership candidates.
Nenshi said he has spoken with the three front-runners — Avi Lewis, Heather McPherson and Rob Ashton — and suggested to CBC News that he asked candidates not to stand in the way of his push to win next year's Alberta election.
Nenshi is attempting to unseat the United Conservative Party government led by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.
"In Alberta, we are facing a particularly horrifying government, a government that is malicious, that is incompetent and that is corrupt, to be very blunt," Nenshi said in an interview with CBC News.
"We don't have the luxury in Alberta to get caught up in ideological battles … within our own party."
Nenshi said the Alberta NDP is in a "very different (position), bluntly, than the challenges facing the federal NDP," which is in a rebuilding phase after the last federal election nearly wiped it off the map.
"I just needed all of the party leaders to understand that," he said.
He pointed to "tensions" between his predecessor, Rachel Notley, and former NDP leader Jagmeet Singh over issues such as pipelines.
"We need to show [Alberta voters] what a pragmatic, populist, progressive party looks like and what a government in waiting looks like," he said.
The provincial wings of the NDP movement have enjoyed much more success than the federal one recently. In Nova Scotia and from Ontario all the way to British Columbia, the NDP either holds government or forms the Official Opposition in the provincial legislatures.
Meanwhile, the federal NDP lost official party status in April's election — with only seven MPs returning to the House of Commons.
As the NDP leadership race enters its sixth month, at stake for some is whether the next leader will be an asset or a drag on the party's aspirations to form more provincial NDP governments.
In one of the sharpest lines of attack in the federal leadership race, Ashton praised those provincial NDP leaders while going after one of his competitors.
"They don't need a federal leader who lectures them or second-guesses them from Ottawa," Ashton said in a social media post.
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