Where’s the party?

Where’s the pipeline?

Where’s the big win for Alberta on Grey Cup week?

Yes, it wasn’t supposed to be this way and, since I’m not negotiating with Prime Minister Mark Carney and his Liberals, I can cut through the crap.

We were told many times by Premier Danielle Smith how she had a deadline for Carney to meet.

She wanted Carney to put a bitumen pipeline to the west coast on his list of nation-building projects to be fast-tracked for the green light.

She also demanded the Liberal prime minister scrap or seriously make over anti-oilpatch laws brought in by the Liberal government under former prime minister Justin Trudeau.

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And the clock would run out on those demands come Grey Cup week. That was the understanding of most Albertans.

It’s Grey Cup week.

Alberta didn’t score a touchdown and didn’t kick a field goal in this big game of real-world politics.

Alberta didn’t even manage to punt the ball into the endzone and squeeze out a single point.

At least not yet.

No, Alberta got nothing. Shut out. A goose egg.

Oh, other places did well.

Carney put three B.C.........

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