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Alberta’s next provincial election, potentially just weeks away, will be fought on a number of fronts.

Pipelines, jobs and the economy will be at the top, as they have been for most of the past three years.

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Provincial debt and the carbon tax will also rightly comprise a prominent part of the campaign, though this is also well traversed territory.

What comes next is anyone’s guess — Alberta’s increasingly brittle relationship with Ottawa seems a good bet — but there’s one politician hoping health care is high on the priority list.

Though it won’t get most of the airtime, this is the topic that may provide the most fascinating debate of all.

At least that’s how current Health Minister Sarah Hoffman sees it.

And to hear her talk, she is relishing an opportunity to take on Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party.

“Their vision for health care scares me, and I think it scares most Albertans to be honest when they sit down and think about it,” she said in a recent year-end interview.