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As premier, New Democrat Rachel Notley says there will be no “Rae Days” in Alberta.

She says an Alberta NDP government will in no way resemble NDP premier Bob Rae’s controversial regime in Ontario between 1990 and 1995.

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Asked what lesson she can take from Rae’s one-term government, she retorted: “Don’t be like them.”

“I find it irritating that the NDP, we always have to account for the Bob Rae government’s fiscal challenges,” she told the Herald editorial board late in the campaign.

“Ontario, it was bad, but the NDP always gets tarred for it, even though Bob Rae has since moved over to the Liberals.”

On Tuesday, the Edmonton-Strathcona MLA won an upset victory over Jim Prentice’s Progressive Conservatives and will soon be forming the first NDP government in Alberta history.

Among her campaign promises are increasing corporate taxes to 12 per cent from 10 per cent, conducting a royalty review, hiking the province’s income tax rate for those earning above $125,000 annually — rising to 15 per cent for those making over $300,000 — and balancing the budget by 2018-19.