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EDMONTON — As New Democrat Party’s most faithful streamed through the convention doors Friday, many were greeted with a four-page, stapled pamphlet filled front and back with black-and-white text: “Make the NDP the climate justice party now!”

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“The party is being surpassed by the Liberals and the Greens!” it reads.

It adds the party needs to make a dramatic move now — it’s time to embrace the Leap Manifesto.

A laundry list of progressive reforms, most of the manifesto would be uncontroversial among most NDPers — except for a clause that would kill all new energy infrastructure projects and end fossil fuel production within a generation.

Even Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, who maintains the halo of success after her provincial electoral win last May, has grown increasingly wary of the federal party in recent days. Thursday, she gave a televised address from her kitchen in which she demanded pipelines.