UCP Questions NDP Leader Rachel Notley’s Husband’s Role in Alberta Election

Lou Arab works for CUPE union running attack ads against Danielle Smith

NDP Leader and former premier Rachel Notley and her husband, Lou Arab, leave following a concession speech after Notley loses the election to the UCP, in Edmonton Alta., on April 16, 2019. The Canadian Press/Jason Franson

With an election announcement imminent, Alberta Premier and United Conservative Party (UCP) Leader Danielle Smith is questioning whether NDP Opposition Leader Rachel Notley’s husband is using union funds to pay for attack ads against the UCP.

Notley’s husband, Lou Arab, is a self-described “political field activist, union communicator.” According to his LinkedIn profile, he works as a communications staffer for the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), one of Alberta’s largest unions, representing over 36,000 public sector workers in the municipal, school board, health-care, post-secondary education, and not-for-profit sectors, among other sectors.