'They haven’t really thought about what sovereignty means.' — Tom McIntosh, University of of Regina political science professor.

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For the past 80 years, the Saskatchewan-Alberta relationship really hasn’t been about the Confederation twins of 1905.

This familial bond has more often been expressed in other ways.

After Albertans struck oil in Leduc in 1947, Saskatchewan became the poor cousin, struggling to make a go of it through farming and potash.

Saskatchewan saw the rise of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (the CCF; forerunner of the NDP) that brought in medicare. The social democrats dominated provincial politics for the last half of the 20th century. Their roots still run deep under the Land of Living Skies.

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But around the same time in Wild Rose Country, the pro-business, faith-based Social Credit Party — under William Aberhart and then Ernest Manning (Preston........

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