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EDMONTON — T-shirts emblazoned with oil drops and “the People’s Republic of Albertastan” are for sale online.

Their creator, graphic designer Laura Lynn Johnston from Edmonton, made a mock-up of the design Wednesday night after the comment by Justice Minister Peter MacKay made the social media rounds, in reference to the NDP sweep in the Alberta election. “It’s Albertastan now,” he said Wednesday following a grim post-mortem with the PC caucus.

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The comment outraged some Twitter denizens, inspiring Johnston’s T-shirt with optional colour choice.

“I’m not here to make money,” she said. “People in Edmonton have a great sense of humour and it’s a lot of fun.”

Johnston was also the creative muscle behind the “twitchy-eyed machete wielding savage” T-shirt immortalizing National Post pundit Chris Selley’s 2013 column comparing flood responses between Edmonton and Calgary.