They’re not ignoring us now.

Finally, an Alberta premier dropped the pointless referendum votes, those endless legal challenges and the regular emotional appeals asking for support from Canadians beyond our provincial borders. (In truth, nobody east of Lloydminster ever gave a hoot about any of it.)

We’ve been engaging in such behaviour for almost half a century, ever since that epic battle between Peter Lougheed and Pierre Trudeau over the National Energy Program back in the late ’70s was sort of settled. Yes, we may have kicked the feds off the porch back then, but we never actually removed them from the property.

It seemed we were dragging ourselves down the same dead end when our current premier announced some word-salad new bill about Alberta being sovereign in a united Canada.

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