CALGARY — Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney doesn’t mince words when asked about possible Alberta separation .
He says it’s a historically discredited concept driven by a pocket of malcontents and guaranteed to shred the social fabric of the province it purports to champion.
“It’s bananas if we allow a tiny perennially angry minority to drag the whole province through a deeply divisive debate,” Kenney said in a recent interview in a boardroom at Calgary’s Bankers Hall, where he’s a senior adviser to a law firm and works with corporate boards.
“(It would be) a referendum that would divide families, divide communities, divide friends for no useful purpose.”
“If this gets to a ballot, there will be marriages that will break up over it. There will be wives and husbands who just can’t t