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Premier Jason Kenney knows he’s got a tiger by the tail.

The prairie fire of protest is burning and shows no signs of cooling down any time soon.

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Kenney doesn’t want things to get out of hand and scorch the earth and see Alberta leave Canada.

He calls himself a Canadian patriot and he believes the vast majority of Albertans are Canadian patriots, as he remembers those who served in this country’s uniform.

But he must act and act now and act hard. The premier has to push Trudeau’s head-up-its-butt government to get a fair deal for this province while not splitting from the country.

He must commit to a knock-down, drag-out fight.

In a Saturday speech in Red Deer, Kenney points to the bad guys: “They need to understand they’re killing the golden goose. They have both fists wrapped around the throat of that goose and they’re squeezing it hard.”

Yet such is the insanity of Canadian politics.

Many of the Alberta golden eggs from the Alberta golden goose, countless billions of golden eggs in fact, have gone east to help out much of the rest of the country.