The provincial candidates for Fort MacMurray have been named by the NDP, making it the second party to do so. The candidates named include public school teacher Ariana Mancini and plant operator for Suncor Energy Stephen Drover. Both candidates are hoping to gain support from former supporter of Wildrose and PC who have become jaded. Mancini explained “I am of the opinion the NDP will provide, and has provided, really the only viable opposition to a government that has left too many people jilted or left behind. I feel that public service workers have been attacked ,unnecessarily so and I feel they are not getting the fair treatment or respect from the province they deserve. I feel that Albertans as a whole voted in favour of a progressive conservative government that ran under a very progressive platform and after Premier Redford took office, it didn’t take too long to see those progressive values and policies she ran under were simply window dressing.”

Stephen Drover is also one of the Fort MacMurray provincial candidates named. When asked about being named Drover responded by saying “The PCs have wasted our resource wealth with corporate tax breaks. With 9% cuts to health education and senior citizens’ care, the results will be devastating. Jim Prentice wants Albertans to pay for the PC’s mistakes. I know I’m swimming upstream here in Alberta but I believe the NDP has the right priorities to protect families, not the big corporations and the PCs and Wildrose lean towards protecting the big corporations first. I believe if Peter Lougheed’s six steps to resource management were followed, we would be all better off.”