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Kelly McParland: The Brexit fiasco is separatism's future

10 years after Brexit, the UK is still struggling to regain what it lost. It's not a formula meant to be copied

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Sir Keir and any of the other five men and women who served as prime minister over the past decade, turning 10 Downing St. into perhaps the world’s highest-profile Airbnb, could tour some of the Canadian outposts where talk of separation has taken a keen hold. They’d be a timely attraction in places like Wainwright and Drumheller, Lac Saint-John and Rimouski, where the bright and shiny future predicted of independence shines most brightly.

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The aim would be to share their experiences in the backwash of Brexit. Topic number one could be: what happens when a government and its people abandon established ties with their biggest market and closest political connections, rejecting the benefits of size that come from membership in a large, established and prosperous community with extensive global connections?

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