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Carson Jerema: How the Liberals turned an alarming number of Albertans into separatists

There is a referendum coming and Carney needs to take it seriously

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EDMONTON — Instead of expending all his efforts trying to integrate into Europe, perhaps Prime Minister Mark Carney could focus on clearing the tinder that is about to ignite a raging fire of anger in the West. Every time the Liberals dismiss Alberta, bring in new policies to control its resources, or ignore or try to manipulate the constitution against the provinces, it motivates the separatists, who on Monday delivered a petition for an independence referendum with more than 300,000 signatures. We are now very likely to get such a vote this fall.

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This is the fruit of a decade of Liberal governance that has cracked and divided this country in possibly irreparable ways.

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