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Experts claim Alberta’s separatist movement is an outlier among global secession efforts Alberta's secession movement is unlike other separatist efforts in democratic countries across the world, experts say. Those outside of Canada, including ones that led to the 2014 referendum on Scottish…

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Experts claim Alberta’s separatist movement is an outlier among global secession efforts Alberta's secession movement is unlike other separatist efforts in democratic countries across the world, experts say. Those outside of Canada, including ones that led to the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence and the 2017 vote on whether the distinct people of Catalonia should leave Spain, all have similar characteristics. "Significant secession movements starts with nationhood, the idea that members of this movement don't consider themselves to be members of the nation that is embodied by the state," said Andre Lecours, a University of Ottawa political science professor. https://calgaryjournal.ca/2026/05/27/experts-claim-albertas-separatist-movement-is-an-outlier-among-global-secession-efforts/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social