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Maybe most of Alberta will say that some day. If it works.

That is, if it rescues the province from failing competitiveness, from the domestic war on Canadian oil, from hyper-dependence on one resource, from smarter opponents in both foreign boardrooms and around eco-campfires at home; if it creates jobs and green pop-up companies, and revenues that pull the province out of fiscal quicksand.

It is fascinating to see how the NDP, which is supposed to be inexperienced and incompetent, has pushed this agenda along so quickly that even the opposition parties are forced to keep catching up. They were surprisingly muted Monday.

Some NDP moves are just opportunistic rebranding of things the PCs were doing as they neared the end of days. The petrochemical incentives announced Monday, for instance, have been discussed for three years.

The New Democrats simply grab these smaller bricks, cement them into their much larger policy wall, and take credit for originality.

They’re highly skilled at massaging issues and shaping messages. Last Friday, for instance, they turned most talk about the royalty review away from royalty rates and toward capital costs.

Almost lost in all this — by design, perhaps — was the plain fact that rates will be adjusted for wells drilled in 2017 and beyond. There was no explanation of what those increases would be.

Ex-premier Ed Stelmach wouldn’t have got away with that. But the NDP mostly did, perhaps because they’ve induced a numb exhaustion with change.