‘No real winner’ in first Alberta NDP leadership debate: expert [Video]

LETHBRIDGE, ALTA. –

An Alberta political scientist said the NDP leadership hopefuls remained fairly even following the first of the party’s debates.

The five candidates vying to be the next leader of Alberta’s NDP took the stage in Lethbridge on Thursday night to plead their case to party members.

Kathleen Ganley, Sarah Hoffman, Gil McGowan, Naheed Nenshi and Jody Calahoo Stonehouse are all vying for the opposition’s top job.

“No real winner, but I think some raised their profile a bit. I think Stonehouse for people who didn’t know her actually did very well. And as Gil McGowan actually joked about, he surprised people,” Trevor Harrison, a political scientist with the University of Lethbridge, said.