In nabbing former MLA Blake Pedersen’s endorsement, the New Democrats claimed one of the most well-travelled political animals in Alberta.
He was elected in 2012 as a Wildrose MLA in Medicine Hat, alongside then-leader Danielle Smith. When she crossed the floor to Jim Prentice’s Progressive Conservatives, Pedersen did too, and then he got politically thumped in 2015 by the same party he’s now endorsing.
Between then and 2023, he’s spent most of the time backing the Alberta Party, which isn’t running a candidate in Pedersen’s current riding, or in 78 per cent of Alberta’s constituencies.
Another ex-MLA whose plug the NDP have touted
