United Conservatives’ narrow Alberta win sets up conflict with Trudeau

Party leader and Alberta premier Danielle Smith used victory speech to attack the prime minister's climate policies

Alberta's United Conservatives have scraped a majority government, narrowly defeating the rival New Democrats in what proved to be the province's closest ever election.

The triumph for incumbent premier Danielle Smith foreshadows more friction between the western province and Canada's federal government on environmental regulation, with Smith using her victory speech to attack the climate policies of the prime minister, Justin Trudeau.