KAMOURASKA, QUE.—Ah, it’s finally spring. As Alfred Tennyson wrote, “in the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.” Or in Canada, to thoughts of separatism this autumn.  

Why the endorphins of infatuation should turn towards secession is anybody’s guess. In Quebec, the Parti Québécois leads the polls for October’s election, but our preoccupation is the Montreal Canadiens’ Stanley Cup quest. In Alberta, the Edmonton Oilers’ exit from the playoffs opened the door for Premier Danielle Smith to save her job by offering a 10-question referendum in October.  

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Having lived in Alberta in my 20s, I’ve always had a soft spot for the province, and was angered by the Justin Trudeau government’s demonization of it for the “sin” of having the world’s second-largest oil reserves.  

That said, the crazy-town Alberta separatist movement astonishes me. A feature on Alberta Prosperity Project leader Mitch Sylvestre in the Toronto Star listed his cockamamie beliefs; among them, that King Charles is running a multibillion-dollar transnational criminal enterprise. Sylvestre, remember, is the man who recently delivered 300,000 separatist signatures. 

Another separatist group, the Centurion Project, distributed a confidential database of three million Alberta voters, in contravention of........

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