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Full disclosure: I despise separatists.

KINSELLA: My view, as an Albertan, on separatists trying to break up Canada Back to video

My family were all born in Quebec. That was home. But in the 1970s, we had to leave the province because the separatists drove us out – we spoke English.

There have been two referenda in Quebec on separation. They cost Canada and Quebec jobs, investment and political stability. More than 700 companies left Quebec. Canadian stocks and companies lost value. And the experts say that the national economy was hit with billions in losses, year after year.

So, families like mine left. Peter Lougheed governed Alberta back then. He believed in Canada. But Lougheed always fought for a better deal for Alberta – within Canada.

Here’s another disclosure: Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and I went to the same high school in Calgary. She was there a few years after me. Later on, when I was involved in politics and she wasn’t, Smith had me on her Calgary 770 CHQR radio talk show a few times.

She wasn’t very smart. She always gave the impression that she was robotically reading........

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