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He’s back.

Not that he was really ever away.

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But for more than two weeks Progressive Conservative Leader Jason Kenney was, as far as the legislature and mainstream media were concerned, missing in action.

It got to the point this week where the NDP caucus issued a news release with the needling headline: “Where’s Kenney Hiding?”

A Kenney spokesman said he “deserves some rest” after winning the PC leadership race.

But come on, we’re talking about Jason Kenney, a workaholic politician who never met a microphone he didn’t like.

The NDP theory, and it’s a good one, was that Kenney had gone into hiding after his bungled comments to a Calgary Herald editorial boardMarch 28 where he seemed to suggest that teachers should “out” LGBTQ students to their parents.

Kenney tried to clarify his position in a Facebook post a day later saying he was not in favour of outing gay students — and then he immediately went to periscope depth.