Alberta has a retirement message ready to roll for Justin Trudeau when he inevitably bows to pressure and quits as prime minister.

This year, our province will almost certainly pump more oil than ever before and is picked to be the standout supplier on the global stage in 2025.

Not that Trudeau will relish such happy news, of course. But we never relished his leadership for the past nine years while he did all in his power to bring Alberta to heel, even if it meant crippling the country’s biggest export money-spinner in the process.

That he’ll be gone soon seems inevitable, after the Liberals lost what they believed to be a safe seat in Toronto to the resurgent Conservatives in a recent byelection. Losing one in the West can be attributed to carelessness: losing one in the heartland is judged a political disaster.

Already the ranks have broken, with Grit MP Wayne Long from New Brunswick publicly calling for the........

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