Former Liberal prime minister Jean Chrétien is taking a swing at Alberta’s simmering separatist movem ent and says Premier Danielle Smith “cannot double-talk all the time” about Ottawa depending on her interests.

“Now she wants the federal government to intervene in B.C. to help Alberta, but don’t do anything in Alberta to help the rest of Canada,” Chrétien said in an interview with CBC’s The House airing Saturday morning.

“Come on, you cannot double-talk all the time like that,” Chrétien told host Catherine Cullen.

Chrétien spoke with Cullen two weeks ago, shortly after a dust-up between Smith and B.C. Premier David Eby over Alberta’s plan to submit a pipeline proposal to the federal Major Projects Office (MPO) sometime next spring.

Smith says her province needs to be the propon

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