For a sense of how colossal the Alberta NDP’s debt is to Rachel Notley, consider this.
Their three best election results were in the three under her leadership, the party winning a combined 116 seats in those races. Across the 12 elections before that, the NDP won 51.
That’s fewer than the number of MLAs elected under Notley’s banner in 2015 alone, to make her premier.
She transformed a team that could fit comfortably in a sedan — or sometimes on a bicycle, with occasional handlebar-rider — into one that filled government’s cabinet room. It’s something she admits defied even her own expectations.
But
