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If it wasn’t so darn important to our city, there’d be some degree of smug satisfaction with the awkward position in which both the premier and prime minister now find themselves embroiled in with this whole pipeline brouhaha.

After all, it was Premier Rachel Notley, when ensconced in opposition with barely a thought of ever getting the top job, who would regale the then-ruling Tories about the urgent need to wean the province off the endless energy roller-coaster.

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And it was Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who once campaigned on a platform promising Indigenous groups and environmentalists there’d be a new dawn in Canada under his steel-eyed steerage, which would ensure the age of dastardly Big Oil would melt faster than any 21st century Arctic glacier.

Well, Notley is now desperately clinging to that same disparaged roller-coaster with a white-knuckled fervour unmatched in modern-day Alberta politics. If it doesn’t quickly kick into gear and help reduce the recession still lingering in Calgary, then the only coasting her party will do is into the Prairie political history dustbin this time next year.