Alberta Environment Minister Shannon Phillips says the federal NDP’s Leap Manifesto contains bad policy and was poorly handled.
Phillips says many Alberta NDP members have told her they feel a lack of respect for their federal cousins who voted for a proposal — with little dialogue and debate — so at odds with Alberta’s interests.
Delegates at the federal convention in Edmonton on the weekend voted to hold discussions at the constituency level for the policies that flow from the paper.
The Leap Manifesto calls for a halt to pipeline construction and an end to all fossil fuel use by the year 2050.
Phillips says Alberta has taken a realistic and balanced approach with its climate-change policy.
She suggests the province’s message may not have reached, in her words, “all the way through to downtown Toronto.”
Infrastructure Minister Brian Mason, the elder statesman of the Alberta NDP, says the manifesto will isolate the federal party from Canada’s mainstream.
