Ivison: Alberta separatists are not ‘deplorables,’ says province’s former finance minister

John Ivison/National Post: “Natural resource development is what has built our country and given us the lifestyle that we now enjoy. For somebody to say: ‘No, just keep it in the ground, it’s dirty, and if we need it, we’ll just import it from Nigeria,’ to Albertans, those guys just don’t understand this country. And that’s what fuels the anger, which fuels the separatist instinct.

“This virtue-signalling nonsense can get me riled up and bloody angry. And I’m considered a moderate compared to many of those who are who are pushing the separatist line.”…

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