UCP members erupted in cheers and applause when a leader of the Alberta separatist movement posed a question on the province’s independence on the first day of the United Conservative Party’s annual general meeting.

Jeffrey Rath with the Alberta Prosperity Act received loud cheers and a standing ovation during Friday evening’s bearpit session with Premier Danielle Smith and her cabinet ministers when he asked the room of thousands of UCP members if they are in favour of a “free and independent Alberta.”

“That so called MOU was signed yesterday, the ink wasn’t dry on the paper and Mark Carney went out and gleefully announced a 600 per cent increase to the industrial carbon tax in Alberta. My question for the room is how many of all of us favour a free and independent Alberta,” Rath said.

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