Conrad Black
Polls currently indicate that about 35 percent of Albertans favour the outright independence of their province, and that approximately an equal number are undecided. This makes the current running on this issue, which has received almost no publicity around the country but which could define the future of the country, about a dead heat. (A clear majority of Premier Smith’s governing United Conservatives appear to be independentists.)
Canadians from other provinces should recall that Alberta, over the years, has paid approximately $70 billion in equalization payments, chiefly for the benefit of Quebec.
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