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EDMONTON — The NDP government will move quickly to remove union and corporate donations from Alberta politics with the support of three of the four other parties in the legislature.

But the Progressive Conservatives — who led the province for four decades before being upended by the NDP in last month’s historic election — accused Premier Rachel Notley of trying to “tilt the political scale” in her party’s favour with Bill 1.

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In Monday’s throne speech, the government announced that — as the NDP promised during the election campaign — its first piece of legislation would ban union and political donations to political parties.

“We knew that there was a fair amount of common opinion and common cause across the aisle on that issue,” Notley told reporters. “It’s always been something I have perceived to be foundational for the strength and the health of our democracy.”

Notley said governments in the past have been too dependent on money from a narrow range of donors with deep pockets and too far removed from the interests of ordinary people.