The emissions cap simply another electoral ploy to go after Alberta to please the progressive crowd in central Canada

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Premier Danielle Smith launched a blazing attack on Ottawa Monday after the feds finally announced their emissions cap on oil and gas.

She was genuinely furious and it showed in a stream of red-hot rhetoric.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has a “deranged vendetta against Alberta,” she said.

Whenever the province tries to negotiate, she added, “they hammer you on the head when your back is turned.”

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The premier came close to saying Alberta will invoke the constitutional notwithstanding clause to opt out of the cap.

Whether the clause works for such a purpose is questionable, but the declaration would still be a powerful message.

She’ll also head to court — again — and work up a resolution under the Sovereignty Act.

Smith said she has carefully studied former Premier Peter Lougheed’s victory over resource ownership in the 1980s.

That reference was intriguing. She probably wishes she had Lougheed’s government tools in hand —........

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