It's time for the Alberta Tories to call the by-election in Strathcona to allow Nahid Enchchi to run and then almost certainly win his seat and enter the Alberta legislature. I think it would show a little bit of class and statesmanship on the part of the Tories to allow him to win it and then have at it.
00:00:00.000I think it's time that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith calls the by-election in Edmonton, Strathcona, to allow NDP leader and former Calgary mayor, Nahid Enchi, to run and then almost certainly win his seat and enter the legislature.
00:00:16.900For reasons I just don't really understand, the United Conservative Party in Alberta is just not calling this by-election.
00:00:22.940That was Rachel Notley's old seat. There is a 100% chance the NDP are going to win it.
00:00:30.000You know, the Conservatives could run Mother Teresa and, you know, the NDP could run Lenin.
00:00:36.740Actually, that might improve their vote in that writing.
00:00:39.060But, you know, they could run Vladimir Lenin or Joseph Stalin and the NDP is going to win that seat.
00:00:44.940The Conservatives have no hope of winning it.
00:00:47.080And, I mean, he's the duly elected leader of the NDP, but he's not yet the duly elected leader of the opposition.
00:00:53.180He has to be a member of the Legislative Assembly to do that.
00:00:55.540And, you know, the Conservatives were, I think, rightfully taunting him that he couldn't get a member of his party to resign and open up a seat for him for some time.