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Alberta is in crisis, but the Trudeau Liberals don’t behave like this is happening in an actual country.

Now Alberta is forced to do the job for them, even though it will be damned expensive.

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The$40 price differential for Alberta oil is ruinous. It presages another big round of layoffs. Delay is no longer an option.

UCP Leader Jason Kenney said Wednesday that no other country would fail to act if its oil and gas were selling for less than bottled water.

He’s right. Luckily, Alberta has practice in saving itself from federal neglect and incompetence.

The province constrained oil shipments in the 1980s to fight back against Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s National Energy Program.

The Peter Lougheed government of that day also used Heritage Fund money to buy grain cars, as well as spending $270 million on the Prince Rupert grain terminal.

Those decisions eased economic crises that Ottawa inflicted in one case and ignored in the other.