In the end, Ms. Tahir was not blessed by fate. Very much unlike in 2015, Mr. Trudeau didn’t pose for a single selfie.

Ms. Ahmed said that she cast her vote for the Liberals, putting her in Alberta’s political minority. Mr. Trudeau’s Liberal party was shut out there and also in neighboring Saskatchewan.

A week earlier I’d been in Alberta to write an article about the province’s feverish political temperature.

[Read: Trudeau Won the Election, but Hasn’t Won Over Western Canada]

At times, it was almost impossible to escape political talk. One night I had dinner at the Longview Steakhouse just north of the Alberta town of the same name. As the locals promised, the meal matched the extraordinary mountain view.

As I was about to leave, two couples sat down at an adjacent table. Their dinner conversation immediately turned to an arcane discussion of how the federal government redistributes revenue between the provinces and whether Alberta should pull out of the Canada Pension Plan — both ideas raised by Premier Jason Kenney as a way to pull back from the rest of the country.

While talk of Western separation, or Wexit, came up several times during my trip, it doesn’t appear to be a serious threat at this point, even if few people are going as far as Naheed Nenshi, Calgary’s mayor, who called it “idiotic” this week.