green party is the opposition?
no. wildrose. ok...
it's nice to see, but i'm a realist...
i'd suggest the ndp focus on legislation that they don't expect the wildrose party to immediately reverse, in what will no doubt be a short tenure in office, and likely actually represents the final conversion of hybrid american/british albertan conservatism into the indigenous wildrose party.
that said, i expect the ndp to actually swing to the right pretty quickly. "campaign from the left, govern from the right" is generally thrown at the liberals by leftists, but the ndp have proven themselves equally capable of backstabbing - look at the recent administrations in manitoba and nova scotia. bob rae was so corporate-friendly that he actually pushed ontario unions to the liberals (before he followed himself...), and the ndp never recovered from it. today, they even campaign on the center-right, fully cognizant of the reality that nobody on the left takes them seriously.
this has been a long time coming, and that might make what's about to happen that much more depressing. but ndp supporters should prepare themselves for broken promises - and open heart surgery.