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Albertans have been worried about a trade war lately — with the U.S., not Saskatchewan.

But that’s what we might get, after Premier Brad Wall’s startling border-crossing raid.

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Premier Rachel Notley accuses Wall of violating two trade agreements with his very specific invitation to Greg Fagerheim, CEO of Whitecap Resources Inc., to move the company’s head office and staff to Regina.

Notley is probably right. Article 12 of the New West Partnership, the four-province deal signed by Wall’s government in 2015, states that a province “may not directly or indirectly provide business subsidies that . . . entice or assist the relocation of an enterprise from another party (province.)”

But Wall argues that everything’s good because his government has no specific relocation program.

That doesn’t get him off the hook. He wrote a personal letter to Fagerheim offering relocation costs, and even corporate digs in a government office building “as a further incentive.”