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About 30 years ago, when Saskatchewan politics was in the throes of the great Crown corporation privatization debate, union leadership likened the battle of public ownership of utilities to the U.S. civil rights movement 30 years earlier.

Rightly, such overheated rhetoric was scoffed at and faded into the sands of time, never to be heard of again … or so we thought, until last week …

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Yes, dissatisfaction over “Eastern Canada” voting in a Liberal minority government had some — believe it or not — comparing the plight of western Canadians who will continue paying the carbon tax under a federal Liberal government with the plight of 1960s African-Americans. Sadly, that wasn’t even the most over-the-top response.

Almost immediately after a democratic national vote, talk of “western alienation” quickly morphed into talk of western separation … either in the form of an independent Saskatchewan and/or Alberta nation, or joining the U.S. as the 51st and 52nd states. There was even agathering in Lloydminster on Sunday to “discuss optionsgoing forward to deal with the situation Western Canada finds itself in after the election results.”