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Bell: Danielle Smith drops a $400-billion bomb on Alberta separatism

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

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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.

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

Bell: Danielle Smith........

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