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The newly elected MLA for Calgary-Elbow is trying to prevent the potential destruction of sensitive and important government files during the transition period from Tory to New Democrat rule.

Alberta Party Leader Greg Clark is making requests under freedom of information legislation for copies of all the records that are being shredded or wiped from computers as Premier Jim Prentice and his cabinet colleagues clean out their offices after four decades of Progressive Conservative regimes.

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“I really want to know what they are destroying, because I have a strong feeling that after 44 years there’s a lot of skeletons in those closets,” Clark said.

“I think the default ought to be to do nothing and let the new government decide what should and should not be kept.”

Clark said his FOIP requests were motivated by pictures that appeared on social media and in newspapers earlier this week of bags of shredded documents outside the legislature office of Environment Minister Kyle Fawcett.