Premier Danielle Smith and her Alberta Next panel met another friendly audience at a packed town hall in Airdrie on Monday night, where the crowd cheered for separation and voted enthusiastically for the province’s proposals for greater autonomy from Ottawa.

Only after passing through buttoned-down security, the crowd of about 550 people packed the city community centre with 150 people lodged in an overflow room equipped with a television.

With the panel hitting the home stretch on its eighth stop of the summer, the town hall followed a similar script to the previous panels with the audience voting overwhelmingly in favour of the six proposals.

The panel was constructed by Smith to help brainstorm possible referendum questions that aim to find ways to fix Alberta’s relationship with the

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