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There is something screwy going on with Alberta politics.

The social-justice-minded NDP is trying to be heroes on the economic front while the economic-minded Wildrose is trying to be heroes on the social justice front. Things are upside down.

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This week, we saw the Wildrose hammer away at the government over the handling, or mishandling, of the Serenity file involving the 2014 death of a four-year-old girl after she was placed in government-supervised “kinship care.”

Despite an autopsy report detailing a litany of abuse against Serenity, nobody has been charged in her death and an RCMP investigation continues.

“There is only one set of facts,” said an angry Wildrose Leader Brian Jean during question period Thursday. “This government failed Serenity and many children in care. At every corner of this story there’s gross negligence from all levels of government, and it failed a little girl.”