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Canadians have long grown used to lawn signs cropping up on every street during an election campaign. Those signs are almost always ones endorsing specific candidates.

But during Alberta’s recent election, many voters also offered up their yards to a different sign: I Love Pipelines was the logo that appeared across many neighbourhoods throughout the province, as well as on T-shirts and people’s social media accounts.

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Tuesday’s provincial election was very much both an acceptance of UCP Leader Jason Kenney as premier and a rejection of NDP Leader Rachel Notley from that post. But it was also about sending a message – that Albertans want to work. They want their oil and gas sector to be firing on all cylinders.

This message wasn’t just directed at their own province, but at the rest of the country. At a time when Canadians were watching Alberta politics with great interest, Albertans wanted to make the most of the opportunity.