text: Why on earth would anyone rally around the extinction of a political party? I moved to Alberta in 2000 to take a job that I was offered, and for ten years I a decade, it seemed, we had governance in which the opposition was basically extinct.  In other words, there was no one to hold the government to account> I remember observing that the only entity that stood up to the government in those days was the teachers' union. Then, of course, the conservatives split, creating an opposition.
  
  If posters are right in saying this spells the extinction of the NDP, then the right will split again, because we cannot have good governance without strong, effective opposition.