Alberta’s key separatist leaders often seem propelled by pure hatred of Canada.

Consider this blast from Jeffrey Rath, one of the key figures.

After the premier’s meeting in Ottawa last week with Prime Minister Mark Carney, he said on X: “Notice that Danielle Smith hasn’t publicly told Mark Carney to butt out of the Alberta independence debate.

“Foreigners like Carney have no business telling Albertans what to do.”

The prime minister is a foreigner?

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Born in Fort Smith, N.W.T., Carney was raised in Edmonton from the age of six.

He was an avid hockey player. His dad was a professor at the U of A.

How Albertan can you get?

But I’m falling into the separatist trap here.

The leaders think a good secessionist soldier must first prove absolute loyalty to Alberta.

Increasingly, to do that they must also demonstrate contempt, even hatred, of Canada itself.

One more time, here’s a key quote from David Parker, who is implicated in the leak of........

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