Former Alberta politician Thomas Lukaszuk is a man on a not-so-lonely mission to keep Canada from splitting.

“This has become a full-time job. I’m very passionate about this,” the former Progressive Conservative deputy premier said in Edmonton last week.

As people trickled in and out of a local legion, a table full of volunteers helped them officially put their name to Lukaszuk’s cause.

“When we get to 300,000 signatures, believe it or not, this will be the biggest petition in the history of Canada,” said Lukaszuk.

Canadian history has, in fact, had bigger signature collections. In 2010, more than 700,000 affixed their names to a petition against British Columbia’s harmonized sales tax.

Lukaszuk’s Forever Canadian project needs to collect 294,000 names on a petition to spur a referend

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