Alberta’s separatist sentiment has borrowed heavily on what you might call Quebec envy. But make no mistake, the direction it is taking now veers far from the well-worn Quebec separatist path.
Though Alberta’s discontent in the federation goes back a long way, it was only in the past decade or so that it sharpened into a focus on getting Alberta the same kind of leverage that Quebec has used in Canada.
You started to see it with demands for Alberta to have more control over immigration, or its own pension plan, as Quebec does, or for the province to have more say on judicial appointments, including to the Supreme Court.
