Canadian unity is always a consideration in federal elections. As a federation, Canada has independence movements in both Quebec and Alberta. Support for those movements has had ebbs and flows but they can’t be dismissed.
In Quebec, the province came within 1% of a positive vote for leaving Canada in a 1995 referendum. In Alberta, support for independence was high enough for Gordon Kesler to win a legislative seat with an independence platform in response to Pierre Trudeau’s National Energy Program in the 1980s.
