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Premier Jason Kenney took a trip to Texas this week, where he has been talking to energy leaders in the hopes of drawing increased investment in Alberta’s oil sector.

That’s an important mission, but instead of focusing solely on the health of the province’s wells, the premier may soon want to ask how deep his own well of political capital goes.

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It seems a fitting question to ask given the events of the past couple of weeks, in which Kenney and his government have been drawing heavily against that capital with a number of tone-deaf decisions.

Worse, the premier hasn’t exactly shown remorse for any of it, leaving one to wonder what it might take to convince him that the well could be starting to run dry.

You’d have thought a tough budget would have been enough controversy for one session, but that proved to be just tip of the iceberg.

First came Kenney’s struggles to justify why his government needed a $16,764 charter plane to fly around a handful of conservative premiers, their wives and political staffers.