Ivison: Alberta separatists are not ‘deplorables,' says province's former finance minister

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Ivison: Alberta separatists are not ‘deplorables,' says province's former finance minister

Jim Dinning tells the Post’s John Ivison why he is sympathetic to Premier Danielle Smith’s push to give separatists the chance to express their strongly held sentiments in a referendum

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But Alberta’s former finance minister is not contemptuous of those who want to create a separate country.

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