The UCP is forever poking its nose into Alberta hotspots, from public libraries to municipal councils, medical practices, speed limits, and much more.

Nothing seems immune from their urge to tinker. Premier Danielle Smith and her crew prompt squeals of outrage and move on to the next target.

That’s one reason we suddenly have a stupendous blowup over redrawing riding boundaries for the next election.

When so little of the status quo is safe from this government, wouldn’t they rig democracy itself to their own benefit?

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Here’s NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi on Thursday, after the UCP brought in a motion to take control of boundary decisions:

“At midnight last night, they finally played the card that they have been foreshadowing for many, many weeks. They took the work of the independent electoral Boundaries Commission, good work that is based on the input of thousands of Albertans, and they threw it in the garbage.”

Nenshi noted that UCP members of the boundaries commission “unanimously accepted and put out an insane minority report, a report that didn’t give Lethbridge any seats. They dissolved those cities into the rural areas (in) a report that made Calgary completely........

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