RECAP | Every part that unfolded on Canada’s election night time (and the day after)

Heather McPherson could also be scorching on the heels of victory, however she’s nonetheless having a very tough day.

The NDP candidate held onto her seat in Edmonton Strathcona, making her the lone New Democrat elected in Alberta. However she says her success feels bittersweet as her celebration crumbles round her.

“It’s totally arduous at present,” McPherson instructed host As It Occurs host Nil Köksal. “I am grieving the lack of some actually exceptional members of Parliament.”

McPherson blamed her celebration’s losses on strategic voting, the first-past-the-post electoral system, and an election she says centred on concern of U.S. President Donald Trump. She issued dire warnings concerning the nation sliding in direction of an “American-style two-party system” that breeds division.

“In the long term, I feel that New Democrats will come again. We at all times do. We’ll preserve combating,” she mentioned. “You do not develop into a New Democrat in Alberta since you wished the straightforward method.”

Requested if she would search her celebration’s management when Singh steps down, she mentioned it’s “too early to inform.”

“I feel that historical past will keep in mind Jagmeet Singh as bringing ahead the most important growth of our health-care system in a technology,” she mentioned, referring to him as her mentor. “I’m so happy with what he was capable of obtain.”