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Colby Cosh: If Alberta separatists can't convince me, they have no hope

I ought to be the very easiest person for an ad-hoc separatist movement to convince. They haven’t come close on their best day

The Alberta separation referendum will happen on Monday, and I am very much looking forward to Tuesday, when I can go back to being my usual Albertan-chauvinist self. Perhaps I ought to say a word or two to my own tribe in advance of the vote. I was born in Alberta, in late Social Credit Alberta. I’ve never lived anywhere outside Alberta. Readers know I espouse weird anarcho-capitalist politics, all of which I learned growing up in Alberta, and some of which I got directly from an education at the University of Alberta.

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I then worked in the boiler room of Alberta Report (AR) for the better part of 10 years, as writer and senior editor (a job title only ever given to young people). I was friends with, and an admirer of, both Ted and Link Byfield. Alberta separatists who do not recognize these names should die of shame. Neither of those gentlemen were originally from Alberta, but they loved and advocated for Alberta, so that didn’t come between us.

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