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Bell: 'Huge risk' — Smith's budget boss warns Albertans of perils of separatism

Start your engines, the latest eye-opening report on the big-time costs of Alberta leaving Canada heats up the referendum debate

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“I think it confirmed what all of us suspected,” says Jason Nixon, budget boss in the UCP government led by Premier Danielle Smith, of the explosive report on the costs of Alberta leaving........

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