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Wildrose Leader Brian Jean has a new enemy — the Wildrose party of one year ago, in the dark days of the floor-crossings to the Progressive Conservative government.

He also has a new friend — the very same PC party, which he now credits with great things in the past.

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This is jolting for anyone who watched the savagery of Wildrose attacks on the PCs for nearly six years, from 2009 right through the campaign for the May 5 election.

But it’s all part of a strategy to realign the thinking of PCs, and pull them into the Wildrose tent without the bother of a merger or any dealings with the party itself.

Wildrose will run this plan over the next few years, working hard to attract stray and dispossessed PC voters, as well as many Wildroser-leaners who voted for the NDP.

But the popularity of the approach among Wildrosers isn’t universal. Some were dubious about Jean’s speech. He got 78 per cent support in the party’s leadership vote, held immediately after he spoke.