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If the Conservatives could win half the ridings 338canada.com says it could possibly take back from other parties, and loses a few as well, let’s hazard a guess of 119 seats on Monday, i.e. a net gain of 24.

The worst-case scenario for the Liberals, should every riding that’s leaning, likely or a toss-up NOT go their way, is 108 seats, way down from their majority of 177 seats when the election was called.

338canada.com suggests the Liberals could possibly lose 11 seats in the Maritimes, 13 in Quebec, 23 in Ontario, seven in Manitoba/Saskatchewan, three in Alberta, nine in B.C., and three in the northern territories.

Then, once again, there’s reality. The Liberals will not lose every one of those 69 contested seats. The rest of the country is not as mad at Justin Trudeau’s Liberals as we are in Alberta. Outside of Alberta/Saskatchewan, the Canadian economy is in good shape.

If the Liberals lose half those contested seats and win a handful back from other parties … let’s give them 146 seats on Monday.

The real election storyline in the last week has been the realization in English-speaking Canada that the resurgent Bloc Quebecois could take 13 of the 14 seats now held by the New Democrats in Quebec, and up to 16 of the 40 seats the Liberals now have in La Belle Province.

In 338canada.com’s best-case scenario for the Bloc, it grows from its current 10 seats to 39.

So where does this leave Alberta?

Totally screwed, that’s where!

The only way we will ever get out of this lethargic, stale economy that is sucking out our lifeblood is through construction of one or two new pipelines to export our oil overseas, send more to the U.S., and replace imported oil in Eastern Canada.