Ahead of this weekend’s United Conservative Party (UCP) AGM, Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to sit down with Premier Danielle Smith to delineate a roadmap to pipelines, energy regulatory reform and carbon capture projects. One would expect genuine progress in these negotiations to take the wind out of separatists’ sails. But not necessarily; for some independence-minded Albertans, Carney is a separatist’s dream.

How real is the separatist movement, this time? It’s been four decades of them chirping in Alberta; but arguably, this is the most organized they’ve been. And for people hell-bent on Alberta’s separation from the rest of Canada, pipeline deals with Ottawa no longer matter.

Carney puts the country further into debt, and at the same time cripples our ability to earn, grumbl

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