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He is a party of one, the last MLA standing in the Liberal caucus.

Tall and thin with craggy features, if you plopped a top hat on his head, you’d have a pretty good approximation of Abraham Lincoln before the beard.

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Lincoln had it easy; he only had to win the American Civil War.

As the lone Liberal in the Alberta legislature, David Swann is trying to keep his party relevant — a Herculean task at the best of times. But these aren’t the best of times. This is a time when Alberta politics is focused solely on the escalating war between the NDP government and the United Conservative Party opposition.

“Political action committees are subverting Alberta’s election finance rules by bleeding dark money into leadership and election campaigns,”

That’s too bad for Swann and the Liberals — and the rest of us.

Swann is smart, compassionate and continues to speak truth to power. If only we’d stop now and then to listen.

This week, he raised questions in the assembly about an important issue that has serious implications for our elections — and our entire democracy, come to think of it — but hasn’t been getting much attention.