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“They don’t know what they’re doing,” is a charge many Albertans level at Premier Rachel Notley’s New Democrats.

But it’s entirely wrong. This is the most focused, goal-oriented government Alberta has seen in decades.

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In the past 25 years only Ralph Klein’s Progressive Conservatives in their cost-cutting phase were anywhere near as determined, and even they could always find time for a drink.

What people really mean is that they don’t like what the NDP is doing. That’s another subject entirely.

Another common charge is that the NDP is “ideological.”

Once a nice, quiet word, “ideological” is now a call to arms. It was flying around the legislature again Wednesday, hurled mainly by Wildrose MLAs who are every bit as ideological as the NDP, just not in the same way.

All parties have ideologies, a general set of views they bring to solving problems.

A politician with no beliefs would be just a money-grubbing, career-advancing, attention-seeking cretin. And we don’t have any of those, do we?