Alberta Premier Danielle Smith drops a political bomb, a financial bomb, a bomb dropped on the separatist assumptions of way more gain than pain by Alberta leaving Canada and striking out on its own.

Almost $400 billion in start-up costs to set up an independent Alberta. Roughly $80,000 for every Albertan.

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Somewhere between $25 billion and $50 billion in yearly costs. Roughly up to $10,000 for every Albertan.

Year after year after year.

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Look at a dictionary and this is the definition of eye-popping. This is not the definition of the land of milk and money.

The Smith government is preparing a report looking at the price tag on leaving Canada.

Smith is all in for the Remain in Canada side of the referendum fight leading to a vote on Oct. 19.

The Alberta premier hopes the facts and figures will be out by August.

She’s already spoken with the government’s new budget boss who is not known as a guy who lets sleeping dogs lie.

Smith adds Trevor Tombe, the oft-quoted economist, has already done some back-of-the-envelope calculations.

While we wait for all the arithmetic Smith rolls out the........

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