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Jack Mintz: Tactics divide Albertans on 'stay' or 'leave'

Both sides rely on hope, with stayers hoping for federal policy changes and leavers hoping for prosperity without strife

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If there is one feeling Albertans share — both the majority who want to stay in Canada and the minority who want leave — it is that they give more to the rest of Canada than they receive back. An Angus Reid poll last February found that 56 per cent of Alberta respondents believe that to be the case, with only six per cent believing the opposite.

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Those numbers aren’t surprising. My own experience speaking at conferences in the past few months is that both “stay” and “leave” Albertans share........

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