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B.C. Premier John Horgan couldn’t spin his own law out of thin air. Now he claims to believe in the rule of law.

That’s what Alberta is up against in the pipeline dispute with B.C. — blinding illogic, growing fanaticism, a premier who invents a cascade of slippery tactics to stall a pipeline out of existence.

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Premier Rachel Notley knows it. She correctly said British Columbia’s retreat to the courts is only a small victory.

She kept her promise and lifted the wine boycott. But B.C.’s bitumen boycott, informal but fierce, is far from resolution.

Horgan will now ask the Supreme Court to rule on his claim that B.C. can regulate what flows through a federally approved pipeline.

A week ago, Horgan was saying B.C. couldn’t be sued because he was merely consulting voters about controlling the flow of bitumen, not actually regulating it.

And now, on exactly the same ethereal terms, he wants the nation’s top court to accept a referral.