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Well, at least somebody wants to visit Alberta during the election campaign.

Political leaders fly over, wagging their contrails in recognition of the province’s political irrelevance.

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But Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is coming. She says so on her Twitter feed, which has 2.8 million followers.

Thunberg is the latest in a long line of critics who have flailed away from afar or, like film mogul James Cameron, come to visit.

This has been going on since 2008, after 1,600 ducks died on that Syncrude tailings pond.

But this young woman is very different. She has sparked into life a worldwide climate protest. Her every utterance is followed reverently by young people and many older ones.

She is eerily adult at the age of 16. There is about her a touch of martyrdom.

Her bravery is astonishing. She faces down and even scolds powerful world leaders, immune to their flattery and celebrity. What teenager ever did that?