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The Wildrose party faces two chores as members get ready for the first general meeting since the May 5 election:

Discredit the New Democrats;

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Destroy the Progressive Conservatives.

Leader Brian Jean’s party works at the first job every day. The second may take care of itself.

PC Interim Leader Ric McIver defends corporate political donations. He says “hogwash” when the NDP tries to make the legislature more family-friendly for young MLAs.

There is about him no hint of progressivism. But that’s the only card the PCs have to play. If progressive voters tire of the NDP, many voters who gave them a one-time vote could flock back to the PCs.

That won’t happen as long as McIver keeps coming across as Brian Jean’s long-lost cousin, drifting aimlessly in the ether somewhere right of Wildrose.

In the legislature, the little PC caucus seems leaderless, with MLAs freelancing in much the same way the Liberals used to do under Raj Sherman.