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That Brad Wall didn’t quietly ride off into the western sunset continues to fuel speculation on his political future.

As we all know, after resigning as premier, Wall headed west to Calgary for the rather nebulous special adviser job at the Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP law firm, where his duties seem to revolve around very public speaking engagements promoting all things good for conservative business.

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The burning questions for many are: What is the purpose? Federal politics? Maybe a run at federal Conservative leadership?

Well, not quite.

As it turns out, Wall’s new role does serve a political purpose … even if it isn’t an elected role and even if he doesn’t much talk about it.

Wall again weighed in on federal political matters during a speech to a Saskatoon agricultural conference this week.

In fairness, much of his talk was on Chinese trade relations specific to agriculture. Intriguing, however, is how quickly this “agriculture address” transitioned to NAFTA negotiations and then to more domestic matters like Bill C-69, which changes environmental approval processes and is opposed by the oil industry.