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The provincial NDP blurred partisan lines when it advertised jobs for its dozens of new constituency offices, but quickly moved to correct the problem, says a report released Tuesday by the legislative assembly.

Assembly Clerk David McNeil launched the investigation earlier this summer after Progressive Conservative MLA Richard Starke raised concerns the NDP’s constituency job postings were funnelled through the NDP’s executive director Brian Stokes.

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“The partisan involvement of the New Democratic Party in the advertising and selection of employees of the (Legislative Assembly Office) is reprehensible and a clear violation of the non-partisan nature of the constituency office,” Starke wrote in his June 25 letter.

Rachel Notley’s landslide victory in the May election sent 53 New Democrat MLAs to the legislature. The party’s caucus had consisted of four just weeks earlier. That stunning victory required finding offices and staff for the party’s team of rookies. Elected members of the legislature are given a budget from the legislative assembly to lease, operate and staff constituency offices, which are to be non-partisan.