Sometime this afternoon the new party leader of the Alberta NDP will be officially announced and with that announcement will come the end of Rachel Notley's role as leader of the Alberta NDP. Rachel Notley has been in provincial politics since 2006 when she campaigned to succeed retiring Edmonton-Strathcona MLA Raj Pannu and she won the seat in 2008. In 2014 she was elected as leader of the Alberta NDP, which she will remain until later today.

No matter your party/unparty affiliations or leanings 22 years in politics is a long, long time. She has served her constituency, her party, Alberta and Canada and well be remembered for that. She states that Federal politics is out of the picture and doing nothing is probably out of the picture too, whatever future endeavours she chooses to give herself to remains to be seen.

Best wishes Rachel Notley!