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Many Alberta employees were granted the right to workers’ compensation in 1918. Alberta farm workers will finally get that right on Jan. 1, 2016.

This is encouraging. It proves Alberta can fix a glaring, unfair and probably unconstitutional social inequity in less than a century.

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This is never easy, though. Wildrose now says “Bill 6 makes changes too fast.”

Would another 98 years do it?

Workers’ Compensation Board insurance coverage is only the start — such an overdue start — as Premier Rachel Notley’s NDP moves to correct a denial of rights so sweeping that it’s almost hard to believe.

Farm workers have no right to a minimum wage, or to bargain, or form a union, or be compensated if they’re severely injured, or to call in safety inspectors. The province itself cannot inspect farms after serious accidents.

One of the delighted winners in this long struggle, Darlene Dunlop, made the point Tuesday as she waited for details of the bill.