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Wildrose MLA Rick Strankman kept calling it “a mockery of democracy.” What followed was a travesty of truth.

Last week, Premier Jim Prentice said he didn’t like the Progressive Conservative majority on a legislature committee awarding $546,000 in new funding to the auditor general.

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Asked if he was ordering the committee to reverse the decision, the premier said: “Yes.”

So, the legislative offices committee met again yesterday. The PCs who approved the money voted to snatch it back.

The committee chair, Edmonton MLA Matt Jeneroux, then said the committee was acting independently, under no orders from anyone.

And they wonder why the Tooth Fairy has more credibility.

The meeting of this committee, which deals with legislative officers like the ethics commissioner and auditor general, was both instructive and alarming.

It gave a hint of what life will be like if Prentice runs away with a vast election majority, leaving the opposition with only a few seats and little power to stand up to the government.