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There’s a very mediocre 1971 movie called The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight. But maybe its very mediocrity makes its title the perfect nickname for Alberta’s New Democratic Opposition.

Certainly this week, the NDP’s lame performance in the legislature and in committee made them look like a gang with pathetic aim, rather than an effective legislative Opposition.

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Or maybe the “Notley Crue” just want to emulate their chum in Ottawa, Justin Trudeau, and be in perpetual apology mode.

The NDP’s very bad week started when they thought they’d found a “gotcha” moment on the UCP government.

Thirty-five thousand — that’s right, $35,000! — in bulk liquor purchases made by the UCP government at an Edmonton liquor store owned apparently by a man who has donated to conservative campaigns and, especially, to Premier Jason Kenney.

“This reeks of corruption,” NDP critic Nicole Goehring insisted in a statement to reporters.