Then came the interview.

On Monday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre delivers a speech to a standing-room-only crowd at the historic Legion No. 1 in downtown Calgary.

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He tells the crowd Alberta does not need to be a different country.

Alberta needs different government policies coming out of Ottawa.

Most people in Alberta want those different policies and held out hope Poilievre would become prime minister and make it all come true.

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There was no question-and-answer session with newshounds this day but your scribbler managed to talk with Poilievre. He did deliver the Calgary Sun back in the day.

I told him I couldn’t help but ask myself a question while listening to his words from the Legion stage.

When is Prime Minister Mark Carney going to make his speech to Albertans? When will the jet-setting prime minister touch down here and make his pitch to Albertans?

He is the prime minister and Carney is always going on about his glorious boyhood days in Edmonton.

Poilievre responds and, true to form, he does not pull his punches.

“He should have been here a long time ago to denounce........

© Calgary Herald