Alberta's politics are not without their complexity. Here's one striking new example.

While this is a province where many people are newly interested in separating from Canada because the Liberals won — again — and nearly all ridings went Conservative — again — Albertans appear as likely to express admiration for Mark Carney as for Pierre Poilievre.

Yes, Albertans.

A new Janet Brown Opinion Research poll conducted after the federal election for CBC News asked respondents for their impression of the federal Liberal and Conservative leaders, on a 10-point scale, where 0 means deeply unimpressed and 10 means utterly dazzled.

And the results for Carney and Poilievre are nearly identical.

Conservatives won nearly all the seats in the province and 65 per cent of the votes, compared to the

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