Alberta NDP says Smith’s UCP cooking riding boundaries for own benefit

The leader of Alberta’s Opposition NDP says Premier Danielle Smith’s governing United Conservatives are cooking the riding boundaries for their own advantage ahead of next year’s election.

Naheed Nenshi says a report now before an all-party committee gerrymanders ridings in Lethbridge and Calgary to dilute NDP support in favour of the UCP in multiple constituencies.

The report has not been made public and it’s expected to be tabled in the legislature next week.

The NDP committee members say the city of Lethbridge, which is currently two urban ridings, will now become four ridings that take in elements of the surrounding rural areas, and they say the same is happening in northwest Calgary.