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Alberta today is an angry one-issue province. We’re all pipeline, with a side order of economy.

This papers over dangerous cracks in the new United Conservative Party. For now.

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Delegates at last weekend’s founding meeting were ecstatic at leader Jason Kenney’s attacks on Alberta’s perceived enemies — in his view, pipeline opponents and their foreign funders.

The immense crowd, pegged at 3,000 by the party, contained few dissenters on that point.

But there was much more going on over the three-day convention, some of it shocking to hear from a party that hopes to win government.

Around the edges — and perilously close to the middle — there’s a furious backlash against NDP attempts to level social, gender and minority inequalities in Alberta.

The NDP would have started a meeting like this with a statement recognizing the venue as Treaty 7 territory.

The UCP welcome was a bit different. One delegate fumed about how fed up she is with First Nations people who “take and take.”