down as leader of the Alberta Liberal Party. He was publicly praised, and thanked for his service to the province. Taft remained as an MLA until the 2012 provincial election, when he did not seek re-election. Post-political career In January 2012, just before leaving office, Taft published Follow the Money, his fourth book. Research for the book was supported by two economists: Professor Melville Macmillan and Dr. Junaid Jahagir. Drawing heavily on economic data from Statistics Canada, the book challenges the notion that the Alberta government's spending on public services is far higher than other provinces. Taft shows that total Alberta corporate profits are consistently double or more the rates in the rest of Canada or the United States. In contrast, spending on public services in Alberta is in the normal range, and the government has failed to increase the value of the Heritage Trust Fund. Like its predecessors, Follow the Money topped local bestseller lists. The book was also shortlisted for the Alberta Book Publishers Association Trade Non-Fiction Book of the Year in 2013. Between 2011 and 2012, Taft, his wife Jeanette Boman and two other partners designed and constructed a three-home net-zero-ready infill residential project in Edmonton called "Belgravia Green". Boman called it "our one small way of saying we believe that we can make a difference as individuals." The homes are designed and built with the aim of reducing net energy use to near zero. The homes were built by Effect Home Builders, and one of them won the 2012 Canadian Home Builders' Association National Green Home Award. Taft spent 2012-2017 as volunteer chair of a team overseeing the $1.6 million re-development of Belgravia community hall in Edmonton as a fully accessible, multi-purpose, solar powered community centre. After his retirement from politics, Taft continues working as an author, consultant, and public speaker while volunteering substantial time in his community. Latest work (Oil's Deep State) In 2014, Taft was invited to spend three weeks at the Whitlam Institute at Western Sydney University in Australia, to write and speak on the effects of the fossil fuel industry on democracy in the context of global warming. In September 2014, he published the paper "Fossil Fuels, Global Warming and Democracy: A Report from a Scene of the Collision", in the Whitlam Institute's Perspectives series. Developing his ideas further, Taft published his fifth book, Oil’s Deep State: How the Petroleum Industry Undermines