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GUNTER: Notley well advised not to talk too much about Trudeau's ‘Just Transition’

If I were Notley, I wouldn’t want to open my mouth about Trudeau’s fairy tale plan and remind voters of my own.

Alberta’s New Democrats were probably also hoping Trudeau would just forget about his plan to kill Alberta’s oil and gas sector, because the similarities between Notley’s transition experiment with coal and Trudeau’s on oil would likely remind voters of how cozy Notley is with the PM, especially on eco issues.

At her Wednesday media availability, Notley accused Smith and Trudeau (but mostly Smith) of simply “throwing darts at each other.” The NDP leader further chastised Smith by saying the premier’s anti-Ottawa language was suppressing investment in the province.

And does Notley really want to start throwing stones over ruining investment? Trudeau’s anti-pipeline, anti-oilsands, anti-energy policies — that he brought in while Notley was premier — cost Alberta at least $150 billion in investment.

Moreover, Notley’s own enviro-fantasy policies helped put our province into one of its deepest recessions. Ever.

There was a joke in Saskatchewan during their energy-sector recovery (while ours was still mired in recession) that the best thing for economic development in Saskatchewan was an NDP government in Alberta.

Thanks to the Alberta NDP’s obsession with environmentalism and climate change (which rivals Trudeau’s), Alberta workers were making an estimated $60 billion a year less when the NDP left power than they would have been if nearly 160,000 private sector jobs had not been lost.

Some of that, sure, was attributable to a collapse in world oil prices in 2014. But other energy-producing jurisdictions began to recover by 2017. Alberta never did until the Notley half of the Notley-Trudeau tag team was voted out of office.

All of that probably explains why Notley didn’t immediately condemn Justin Trudeau’s anti-Alberta rhetoric. Notley didn’t want to disturb the ghosts of her past government.

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