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Will the real Rachel Notley please stand up?

Or at least wave your cowboy hat, so we can recognize you?

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One day, the premier is raising taxes on corporations, the next, she is giving a closed-door speech to international investors praising the private sector as the engine of growth.

One day, she is launching a review of energy royalties, the next, she is promising to give a “warm welcome for investors and uphold their right to earn fair returns.”

Her pro-business comments came from a speech to the Stampede Investment Forum in Calgary this week — and left some observers slack-jawed in amazement, particularly when she talked glowingly of the oilsands: “It’s a tremendous asset which has transformed Alberta into one of the world’s leading oil producers.”

What the heck was going on?

The answer: nothing.

Notley did not have a sudden epiphany on the importance of the private sector in general and the oilsands in particular.