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B.C. Premier John Horgan must be rolling in his political grave.

The latest development in the pipeline dispute with Alberta has him being cast as a friend of U.S. President Donald Trump and an enemy of the fight against climate change.

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For a left-leaning, tree-hugging, progressive West Coaster, there could be no greater insults.

But that’s where this strange political journey has taken us.

After weeks of deriding Horgan’s attempts to delay or kill the expansion of the $7.4-billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion as illegal and unconstitutional and a threat to the jobs of hardworking Canadians, Premier Rachel Notley added more derision Friday.

During a scrum with journalists, she, in so many words, called Horgan an unwitting dupe of Trump.

Actually, the words aren’t hers. They belong to former New Brunswick premier Frank McKenna, now a member of Notley’s “retaliatory” task force in the trade war with B.C.