Prime Minister Carney was in Calgary yesterday; meeting with oil and gas executives, who delivered a message: dismantle the Impact Assessment Act, scrap the Tanker Moratorium, and resurrect “one project, one review.”

Inside every legacy institution is a paranoid allergy to generalists, visionaries, sovereign builders. The very people they need, recruit for, and then grind into the ground for unconformity.

Some accuse Albertans of liking the “political victim” role. As if it’s a cosplay. As if the economic trauma of the 1980s was a mood swing and not a deliberate assault on our economy via the National Energy Program. As if we’re imagining that businesses closed, homes lost value, and entire generational wealth trajectories were vaporized under a Liberal Ottawa that never blinked.