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United Conservative candidates went to “campaign school” over the Family Day weekend to learn the ABCs of running an election race.

Party leader Jason Kenney has been offering Albertans some lessons of his own, on everything from economics and math to education and civics, outlining how he plans to wipe the blackboard clean of nearly everything the NDP has written over the past four years.

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Kenney’s policy announcements are just getting started, but the list is already long enough that it’s almost as if a UCP government would try to pretend the Notley government never existed, to turn the clock back to 2015 and start anew.

The problem is that at least some of that slate-cleaning comes across as arbitrary and ill advised, moves designed to please a zealous party base rather than an appeal to good policy.

Kenney’s vow to stop the NDP’s “ideological” review of Alberta’ school curriculum is one such example.