Paquette riding noted as one with “marginal NDP gains”

September 30, 2015. An analysis of potential gains in seats in Edmonton and Calgary in the upcoming federal election has pushed Edmonton-Manning into the “marginal NDP gains” category, according to CBC polls analyst and ThreeHundredEight.com founder Eric Grenier. The NDP is represented in Edmonton-Manning by Indigenous candidate Aaron Paquette. Grenier says the province will still go Tory blue, but a dozen seats have potential to change.

He says the Conservatives have different opponents in different parts of Alberta: the Liberals in Calgary and the New Democrats in Edmonton. In an interview with Sweetgrass, Paquette said that people in his riding are telling him “they’re tired of Stephen Harper. They’re tired of his politics of division, especially
when it comes to racial issues or cultural issues and they want a change. And they don’t feel that the Liberals are that change.”