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Colby Cosh: Alberta separatists still love their Canadian passports

Even they admit that actually ceasing to be Canadian would come with a zillion hidden costs

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One of the funniest features of the Alberta Separatism Scare of 2026 is that the leaders of the movement spend most of the time, in practice, reassuring fellow separatists that they’ll be able to keep their Canadian passport after we all renounce the declining, dysfunctional, hostile Dominion of Canada to form an independent state. CBC News has the latest discussion of the legal theory, and as is usual — I’m not singling out the Corp here — it’s a little superficial and pointless.

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The federalists are always quick to appeal to the axiom that it is “up to Canada” who is a Canadian citizen, as indeed it........

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