if you want to win a provincial election in alberta, you need to focus on the rural areas - you can't just win edmonton.

but, the federal liberals are not trying to win an election in the oil patch, they are trying to hold on to seats in the downtown cores, where people actually have diverse employment options, just like they do in all the other urban and suburban centres in this country.

and, the irony is that this is what we all should have learned from the ndp's surprise win in 2015 - that edmontonians and calgarians actually have other things on their mind besides the oil industry, that they care about health care and education and the environment, just like canadians everywhere else.

notley is a sellout, and she's going to be destroyed. trudeau should be essentially taking everything she says and negating it, at this point, if he wants to hold on to some of the urban support that is going to abandon her as conservative-lite.