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And there’s a strange smell in the air.

Toryland is dead! Long live Toryland!

Toryland is the nickname for the last years of the PC dynasty, with its cronyism and corruption as it staggered to its death at the hands of fed-up Albertans. In 2015, your scribbler wrote its obituary on election night and it was a happy occasion.

But Toryland lived on in political limbo, even after the power was gone. The self-entitled attitude survived, always there, the sense of privilege you get after 40-plus years running the show in what amounted to a one-party state.

Still, who would have thought we’d see Toryland creeping into the Kenney government?

Let’s take the case of Steve Allan.

Allan is running Alberta’s public probe into foreign-funded attacks on the oilpatch.