If a week is a long time in politics, a year is an eternity.

And for Premier Jason Kenney it must seem like a lifetime.

A year ago Kenney was celebrating a decisive electoral victory over the NDP after running on a campaign platform that could be summed up in three words: jobs, economy, pipelines.

A year later he is dealing with an unprecedented disaster that can be summed up in three words: pandemic, recession, debt.