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There was moment during Justin Trudeau’s visit to Edmonton on Friday when a noisy Canada goose perched above the prime minister decided to make such a nuisance of itself, there was no need for any protesters.

The heckling, er, honking, was so relentless at one point that Trudeau couldn’t help but pause an answer to glance up at the source of the interruption.

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Even the birds in Alberta, it seems, have little regard for the prime minister’s message these days.

Officially, Trudeau’s visit to Edmonton was to tout infrastructure funding with Mayor Don Iveson — one of the few Alberta political leaders of any stature still willing to exchange pleasantries with the prime minister.

Unofficially, the event had a political bent designed to shore up what little support the Liberals might have left in Alberta.

It was no surprise that beside the prime minister the whole time were Edmonton’s two Liberal MPs, Amarjeet Sohi and Randy Boissonnault —though they may have secretly wished he hadn’t bothered to make the trip, so toxic is the Trudeau name right now.

In that vein, it’s not a stretch to think Friday might end up being Trudeau’s last visit to Alberta for some time. It’s entirely possible Albertans won’t see him at all during the federal election, especially should his personal popularity here remain the equivalent of public health officials viewing a measles outbreak.

While the mishandling of the SNC-Lavalin scandal has taken much of the shine off Trudeau around the country, Alberta’s frustration has been largely built around Ottawa’s perceived mistreatment of the oil industry.

It’s hard to imagine what Trudeau could do at this point to rewrite that narrative enough to at least keep the four Alberta seats he won in 2015.

Getting the Trans Mountain pipeline started might help, but I suspect Albertans are already so incensed over delays that it won’t much matter.