Ottawa's carbon tax is "is an invasion of provincial jurisdiction," says Jason Kenney, frontrunner in the race for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party and, he hopes, eventually the premier of Alberta.

Brian Jean, leader of the Wildrose Opposition, who would also like to be the Alberta's premier some day, had this to say on the same topic: "If they are infringing on our jurisdiction we have to take them to task on it." And that means, he told the Calgary Sun's Rick Bell, that if he were to become premier, he would take the province to court over the tax. "Absolutely, 100 per cent!"

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It's unlikely Alison Redford is guilty of anything worse than being a spectacularly incompetent politician, but that Tobaccogate thing sure looks terrible.

Alas for almost everyone involved except the media and the Wildrose Party, who are still having plenty of fun with it, the 2012 Tobaccogate affair just won't go away.