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If you want to get under the skin of the Alberta government — really make it squirm — don’t accuse it of safeguarding civil service jobs, or protecting government services or running a massive multibillion dollar deficit.

Those are all things the government proudly defends as part of a “progressive” (as opposed to “conservative”) agenda to help keep people employed and avoid the type of government cuts that would make the recession worse.

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No, if you want to make the NDP government wince, accuse it of being just like the old Progressive Conservative government.

That’s what the Wildrose did Wednesday by attacking the governmentfor a woeful record on processing requests from the public — and from the opposition — through the province’s freedom of information and protection of privacy (FOIP) laws.

The Wildrose has been complaining for months about hitting a wall when it tries to pry information from the government — a government that promised to be more open and transparent than the notoriously closed and opaque PC governments of old.