Alberta’s Separation Movement Is EXPLODING
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Summary
The separation movement is a phenomenon that started with a few hundred people, grew to over 10,000 the other night, and is on the verge of becoming a political party in Canada. It's a phenomenon which could have a profound impact on our political landscape.
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it's interesting i had breakfast with a local uh business person here a prominent business person
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and i asked him the same question and the interesting answer i got was you know i'm
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i'm not really following it and i was like what do you mean you're not funny i followed a little
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bit of it but he says you got to remember there's so many political parties here so and i i before
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we came out we did a little bit of a survey of the number of political factions that are in alberta
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it's remarkable there's 14 that i could find different political active parties with memberships
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here should we start a party while we're here right but so then i said to him i said well but
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you do realize and the thing that's caught our attention is this movement this separation
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movement this group that we're going to talk to later basically started off with a protest or a
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signing of about a thousand people then it went to two thousand people then it went to three and
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it went to about ten thousand people the other night so this is something that's growing but
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quickly quickly so it's it's exponentially growing yeah so that's what i think we got to watch and
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quite frankly the timing is very interesting so the timing of this exponential growth coming into
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the conservative conservative leadership uh election right to see if they're going to bring
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pierre back or not is very interesting timing which could collide together and cause a very