NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi has a Halloween gag in store for Premier Danielle Smith and the UCP.

“I’m going to sell a whole bunch of merchandise in time for Halloween with ‘Nenshi Nightmare’ on it,” says the former Calgary mayor. “We’re going to make a lot of money from this.”

The NDP has ordered thousands of Nenshi Nightmare T-shirts and coffee mugs. One says Smith’s worst nightmare is publicly funded health care and education.

The UCP tagged the Green Line tunnel plan as a Nenshi Nightmare, even before it pulled funding for the original line.

Nenshi says Calgarians suspect the government backed out just to make him look bad, putting at risk the money already spent, plus windup costs.

He wonders whether the UCP might have acted more sensibly — or at all — if he hadn’t won the NDP leadership.

“Of course it was about me, but it has backfired very badly,” Nenshi said in interview.

© Calgary Herald