Neither the UCP nor Kenney have blamed Alberta's ludicrous budget deficit on equalization.

The equalization gambit is pure retaliation for the blockading of Alberta resource projects.

A few years after OK'ing the release of MILLIONS OF TONS of raw sewage into the St Lawrence, yes folks, millions of tons, the mayor of Montreal rejoices at blockading an Alberta oil pipeline project. All the while with oil tankers from Africa steaming up the St Lawrence.

A pipeline expansion project in BC is blockaded, even though there has been an operating pipeline on that same route for almost 60 years. There are screams of how this pipeline expansion would represent the" end of everything".

Obstructionism, with deep roots in anti-Alberta bigotry.

Notley's "make nice, beg and grovel" approach has yielded nothing. As I predicted days after her election.

The next Premier has to make a decision: fight and possibly lose anyways, or let the slow strangulation continue and lose for certain.