I was collecting signatures for Corb Lund’s Water Not Coal petition on Tuesday when a lady yelled out at me and a couple of other people that were there to sign.
“Maybe Alberta should just join the United States!” she jeered.
Clean water and separatism aren’t the same issue at all, and one of the folks lined up turned to ask her why she would say that.
She exclaimed, “What? Do you like Mark Carney?”
“I’d take Carney over Trump!”
She shook her head and walked away, and that pretty much ended things, but it’s a snapshot of the political climate right now: a conversation about separatism is happening in Alberta. MLA Corey Hogan makes the case for Canada: