Alberta separatists rally outside the offices of Elections Alberta before turning in a petition to trigger a referendum on separating from the rest of Canada in Edmonton, Alta., in May.Todd Korol/Reuters
Lawrence Herman is an international lawyer with Herman & Associates, a member of the Expert Group on Canada-US Relations and a senior fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute in Toronto.
Let’s enter the world of fantasy for a moment and assume that somehow Alberta were to become a totally separate country, a kind of…
