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There’s no doubt about it — the NDP is messing with Jason Kenney’s Progressive Conservative leadership bid.

First, the government took the unusual step of asking the province’s chief electoral officer to investigate his pre-campaign fundraising.

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This is just noisemaking. The office has no power over Kenney’s bucket-passing before an official leadership campaign starts, unless he uses the cash for that campaign.

The NDP knows this. Raising the non-issue now only serves to cast a seedy aspersion, which appears to be the whole point.

But then the NDP dropped a genuine hammer on Kenney’s pickup truck, showing once again that this party practises eternal political warfare.

On Monday, the legislature ethics committee voted to limit leadership campaign spending to 15 per cent of a new ceiling on party spending for a general election.

That would work out to about $330,000 for Kenney, and all other PC candidates, for campaigns stretching from Oct. 1 to voting day on March 18, 2017.