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If you ever meet someone who tells you how humble they are, chances are, they are not.

So too with governments that claim a specific policy is a success. When they oversell it, their beloved initiative may already be a failure.

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Enter Alberta’s newest carbon tax, scheduled to hit $30 a tonne by 2018, and which replaced an existing $15 per tonne tax in effect since 2007.

Governing politicians seems nervous about the annual $2.6-billion tax — the one they neglected to mention in their 2015 election campaign.

Consider that on Jan. 2, the day after Alberta’s higher carbon tax took effect, Albertans were informed by Environment Minister Shannon Phillips that the province was “still standing.”

One month later, Phillips told Albertans that she sensed growing acceptance of the tax; the minister remarked it had not been a “massive economic shock.”

With apologies to Hamlet’s mother, the minister doth protest too much.