Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

The man is gone but he is not forgotten and he should not be forgotten. Ever.

We still feel the anger, the rage.

The ivory tower crowd tries to soften the blow by using the fancy-pants word “alienation.”

Whatever ill will Albertans feel towards the many sins of Liberal Ottawa, and there is a lot of ill will, Guilbeault played a leading role in cooking up the outrage while being more than happy to play the villain in this province.

To some of us, he was known by the nickname he was given in Quebec.

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The Green Jesus of Montreal.

Jesus of Montreal is an award-winning Quebec film and Guilbeault always did cast himself as his own brand of saviour.

But it is one thing to play a saviour when you’re a headline-grabbing activist for Greenpeace on the outside of power looking in, hoping to influence the people who make the calls.

It is quite another if you ever get your hands on power.

Get a hold on power and you can do some real damage.

Yes, your pie-in-the-sky pronouncements may meet the real world and not match up with reality but it does not matter because, with power, you can bend citizens to your will.

Justin Trudeau, when he was prime minister, handed Guilbeault that........

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