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We are promised petroleum royalty regime change at a low point in the price cycle. Energy Minister Margaret McCuaig-Boyd said the industry “will welcome” the change. That “will” is to be read as an imperative, not the use of the future tense.

Subsidies to so-called green technologies promise salvation. This has eluded the Germans, the Americans and the British. Chasing this chimera has cost Ontario its future prosperity.

Recently in Paris, where Notley was not actually at the negotiating table, but simply there to “support” the federal government, she hinted at a “climate leadership plan” that would appeal to “global stakeholders and experts.” She has plans “to bend the curve on emissions in a way that no one ever expected to see coming out of Alberta.”

As the director of the alarmist Pembina Institute, Ed Whittingham, said, Alberta is “back in the climate game.” Game indeed.

The NDP has also developed a “negotiating model” for dealing with teachers’ unions. The other day, Herald columnist Don Braid reported it was “routine” for union bosses to be appointed to public bodies. The triumph of public-sector unions is at the heart of the longevity of the Ontario Liberal party and of the ruin of the Ontario economy. Clearly, we are next.

More recently, the premier announced with great satisfaction that Alberta is no longer an “outlier,” which was more polite than her saying earlier that we are “an embarrassing cousin no one wants to talk about.” The meaning is the same: Notley’s Alberta is just a normal, boring, socialist place where governments rule sheep and the main concerns are affordable housing, health care governance, and, as Shannon Phillips, minister for the status of women, put it, “building feminism,” whatever that might be.