The Financial Post reports in its Tuesday edition that on Saturday, former federal cabinet minister and CIBC vice-chairman Jim Prentice won the Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership race. Post columnist Peter Foster writes this space has taken issue in the past with Mr. Prentice's support for a national energy strategy and other such grand, mushy policy visions. Nevertheless, he appears the man best qualified to revive the severely damaged PC brand and help the province develop its resources. As a holder of both the Environment and Aboriginal Affairs portfolios in the government of Stephen Harper, Mr. Prentice is very familiar with staunch opposition to the oil sands. Mr. Prentice promoted Keystone XL in Washington. He felt the slings and arrows of the braying ENGO climate mob. He suffered posturing and back-stabbing by representatives from both the Ontario and Quebec governments, most notably at the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009. Nevertheless, Mr. Prentice appears to be a natural conciliator, and his promotion of a national energy strategy, even though nobody has a clue what it would involve. Mr. Prentice's main goal has to be reaching an accommodation is B.C. premier Christy Clark.