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Well, that ended in a hurry.

The fall sitting of Alberta’s legislative assembly wrapped up Wednesday afternoon after the United Conservative Party hit the eject button.

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The UCP had been talking about keeping the sitting going to debate major pieces of legislation introduced by the NDP government over the past week or so.

And that was a reasonable position considering the complexity of the legislation that included massive changes to the Workers’ Compensation Board and getting “dark money” out of politics.

But the sitting came to a screeching halt Wednesday after the UCP folded its tent and headed to the exit.

While everyone is decking the halls this time of year, the NDP had been swabbing the deck — with the UCP’s house leader, Jason Nixon.

Premier Rachel Notley began wiping the legislature floor with Nixon’s credibility Tuesday when the Journal broke a story about how, as a business owner a decade ago, he had fired a woman after she complained about being sexually harassed by a client of Nixon’s.