By Judy Monchuk
Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan doesn’t believe the latest attempt to raise a western separatist movement will go far. Fringe politician Doug Christie, co-founder of the Western Canada Concept, was holding a recruitment meeting Saturday near Edmonton for a new federal party.
McLellan said she believes Albertans are focused on the future and doubts there is much appetite for Christie’s message. “If you listen Premier (Ralph) Klein’s speeches, he wants very much to be a leader on the national stage, not leaving the national stage,” McLellan said at an Alberta policy meeting of federal Liberals.
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