The Globe & Mail reports that Alberta Premier Jim Prentice is expected to call an early election on Tuesday morning.
This comes less than two weeks after his Progressive Conservative government unveiled a budget that The Rebel's Ezra Levant called "the worst budget in Alberta's history":
"It spends the most, taxes the most and has the largest deficit."
The Globe speculates that the province's New Democratic Party could become the official opposition "for the first time in decades. Mr. Prentice’s PCs have held power for nearly 44 years."
The Wildrose Party, meanwhile, "has said it will have candidates ready for each of the province’s 87 ridings by the end of the week."
A recent poll put the PCs and the Wildrose "in a dead heat at 24% support."
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Who will win the next election in Alberta?
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Wildrose is the only chance Albertans have of a strong opposition.
The Prentice PC’S are turncoats, and a disgrace to the conservative party name.
Prentice belongs in Ontario where the left originated.
Vote Wildrose please. I don’t want the west to lose Alberta too.
Albertans need to show the dead and rotting Alberta PC Party that we are good people who, despite their abuse of us, will give that party a decent burial.
Urban Albertans will vote PC; the PCs will win. I think the best choice for the rest of us is to elect a strong Opposition and the only party that can give us that is Wildrose.
The mandate he wants is to implement his 59 new taxes and fees to feed an over-spending government. He taxes us more and cuts spending to everything BUT public sector. And his 5% reduction to the MPs pay is a laugh! 30% as a minimum.
Go WIldrose!