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When the NDP came to power in 2015, they brought with them boatloads of “experts” who turned out instead to be textbook theoreticians whose good-on-paper plans ran Alberta’s real-world economy into the ground.

Change No. 1 that Albertans will witness from Premier Jason Kenney and the UCP will not be some fancy new plan based on untried concepts. Rather, the most immediate transformation will be a change in tone and attitude that encourages a return of investors.

For instance, people who understand the energy business will once again design energy policy. What a novel concept!

The UCP won’t let people from lefty think-tanks with grad degrees in environmental studies devise the shutdown of the coal-power industry on the theory it will be easy to replace the lost power and jobs with solar, wind and bug burps.

Kenney and his transition team have been working since before Christmas on a speedy repeal of the carbon tax, a lowering of the NDP’s sky-high minimum wage for teenage workers who aren’t supporting families, a gradual reduction of corporate taxes, an elimination of one-third of growth-choking red tape and, of course, winning approval to build pipelines.

But you know all that. Those were all well-publicized planks in the UCP campaign platform.

Less well-known is all the work the UCP has already done to get ready from Day One to implement its platform practically and rapidly; to figure out the what’s and how’s of getting their policies in place.