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This is not the end of the Alberta Progressive Conservative party — but you can see it from here.

The remarkable series of events this week — well, on Thursday to be precise — all point to the demise of what was the dominant force in Alberta politics for four decades.

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I’ve swung back and forth on this topic since the PCs lost to the NDP in the 2015 provincial election. Initially, I thought the PCs were dead and buried, a fate that has befallen every defeated government party in Alberta history — once beaten, they have never reformed government: Liberals, United Farmers of Alberta, Social Credit.

But then the PCs began to rebound in the polls and I thought maybe I had greatly exaggerated their demise.

But then along came Jason Kenney with his idea to win the PC leadership, blow up the party and merge it with the Wildrose into a new united conservative party that would hold a leadership race he hoped to win.