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SHERWOOD PARK, Alta. — Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley says the United Conservatives are trying to pull a fast one on voters by slipping in changes to their policy platform.

It’s a charge Jason Kenney dismissed Friday, calling it more misdirection from a premier on a day when new Statistics Canada numbers revealed her job creation plan is falling flat.

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The two leaders made the comments as they returned to the campaign trail following Thursday’s televised leaders debate.

Both have promised to erase Alberta’s chronic multibillion-dollar deficits in the next term if they win the April 16 election.

However, Notley pointed out that recent changes to the UCP’s online policy platform document show that Kenney plans to outsource that crucial task to a blue-ribbon panel of experts.

“You don’t do a big event where you release your platform and tell people: ‘Here’s our plan. Hold us to account to it. Trust us.’ And then secretly change that platform in the dark of night,” Notley told supporters at a rally east of Edmonton.