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She raced to Edmonton afterward, and then back to Calgary for a final event Monday.

Despite all the local effort, there isn’t much optimism in party ranks that Notley has cracked UCP support.

If Kenney is going to be premier, as most pollsters expect, there’s one area where I believe he could make a big mistake.

Last Friday he repeated his vow to proclaim Bill 12, which gives the Alberta government power to cut oil supplies to B.C. and the rest of Canada.

Earlier, he said: ‘Within an hour of being sworn in, we will hold a cabinet meeting and the first item on the agenda will be to proclaim Bill 12, the turn-off-the-taps legislation.”

The NDP claims that means he would then immediately cut the flow of oil to B.C. The UCP denies Kenney said any such thing.

But he does vow to reduce shipments to the Lower Mainland if there’s further obstruction from B.C. on the Trans Mountain pipeline.

The problem is, his threats against B.C. could render the law invalid.

When the NDP passed this bill, B.C. sought an injunction.

The court concluded that because the bill wasn’t yet proclaimed (officially decreed as active) it wasn’t a law at all, and thus could not be challenged.

But as soon as it is proclaimed, B.C. can bring the case to court again. The province’s attorney general, David Edy, has promised to do exactly that.

Kenney constantly states that he wants to drive up fuel prices on the Lower Mainland.

When new Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart says the city will be carbon-free by 2040, Kenney promises to help him do it by 2020.