Canada

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is rejecting Opposition accusations that her United Conservatives are pulling the strings behind the scenes to rejig election ridings in their favour.

In question period Monday, Opposition NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi accused Smith's government of being the architects of proposed maps that would've benefitted her party at the polls — but that are likely to be set aside as the government aims to take another stab at the redrawing process.

"They thought they could get away with passing the minority map, but it was so egregious, it was so wrong, that it was too shameless even for the UCP to do that," Nenshi said.