The panel was created earlier this year and Premier Danielle Smith has pitched the exercise as an opportunity to reassess Alberta’s relationship with Ottawa.

Premier Danielle Smith’s Alberta Next panel closed out its cross-province tour on a tense note in Calgary on Monday night as the premier heard from residents with grievances directed at Ottawa and her own government.

The slightest whiff of manure hung in the air at the south Calgary event centre, normally used for equestrian events, where 1,100 people drove in for a final chance to speak directly to the panel before it convenes to decide how to move forward.

“There are some issues that I feel like we are getting enough of a consensus that we may be able to move on, some we may reject, and others that will have to be put to the pe

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