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UCP Leader Jason Kenney is getting great publicity in India. Maybe he should run there, too.

Kenney is having so many meetings, running to so many places, you’d think he was back stumping rural Alberta in his blue pickup.

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But, no, he’s just moved the Alberta election campaign about 11,000 kilometres east.

India is a risky place for Canadian politicians. Ex-premier Alison Redford went there in 2014, on a trip that was supposed to cost $120,000 but ended up soaking taxpayers for $450,000.

Her chief contribution to Alberta’s well-being was a photo of herself at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, looking meekly devout.

And the shot of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and family at the Golden Temple will forever be an icon of Canadian hilarity.

So far, there’s no photo of Kenney barefoot and robed. Wait for it.

Photo by Public Relations Office Govt. Of Punjab via AP

Redford and Trudeau were at least government leaders, formally representing their province and their country.

Kenney is neither, but he appears to be busier than both, engaging in discussions on everything from oil exports to immigration, security and foreign policy involving Middle East dictatorships.

He resembles, if you want to get both historical and hysterical about it, a Bourbon duke running around Europe, lining up allies for the ouster of Napoleon.

He is careful to say he’s “leading a delegation from the United Conservative Party,” which is paying part of the cost, along with Kenney himself.

He notified Premier Rachel Notley of this in a letter five days before the trip. He said he will promote Alberta (i.e. NDP) government policy.

But there’s ample evidence of media and leaders in India being confused about, what, exactly, he is — an Opposition politician, a government leader, a Canadian federal minister, a former minister . . . what?

India’s real-life minister for infrastructure, Nitin Gadkari, tweeted: “Met Mr. Jason Kenney, Hon’ble Minister, Alberta, Canada. We discussed about exploring areas of mutual cooperation in infrastructure sector.”

Kenney may be called “honourable,” in the formal sense that he’s a former Privy Councillor, but he is in no way a minister.