A majority of delegates at the Alberta NDP convention in Edmonton on Saturday voted to end the party’s automatic membership ties to its federal counterpart. Their leader, Naheed Nenshi, also received nearly 90 percent support in his first leadership review.
More than 1,000 registered delegates attended the May 3 convention, where over two-thirds voted in favour of allowing provincial members to opt out of membership in the federal New Democratic Party.
While some two or three dozen strongly opposed the change, the outcome was in line with the Alberta NDP’s rules, which require “a two-thirds majority of all delegates present and voting at any Provincial Convention” to effect a change to the party’s constitution….