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Now I know how all those old rednecks felt with their bumper stickers promising not to pee away the next oil boom if only providence would provide one.

After wondering aloud when our golden boy prime minister would actually get down to running the country, rather than posing for endless selfies and glossy magazine shoots, he suddenly does exactly that, proving the truth of that old adage about being careful what you wish for.

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Yes, Trudeau The Younger has cast aside the sunny smile and gee-whiz bonhomie to show, yet again, that the apple does not fall far from the tree by announcing a $50-a-tonne carbon price that will effectively wipe out Alberta’s competitiveness as completely as his dear old dad did with the National Energy Program.

Just as with the NEP almost 40 years ago, such a made-in-Canada levy will make the extraction of Alberta’s main export commodity – that’s oil and gas for those in the provincial government who still seem to think it’s producing hot air and in-depth studies – totally uncompetitive on a continental basis.