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Nearly 80 per cent of residents in Alberta and Saskatchewan think the federal government has lost touch with average people in the two provinces, says a new poll commissioned by the communications firm Navigator.

Nearly two-thirds of people in Alberta and Saskatchewan think the country is in the midst of a national unity crisis, along with a razor-thin majority of 51 per cent of Canadians across the country.

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The numbers are lowest in Manitoba, where only 41 per cent of people think the country is experiencing a national unity crisis and the Atlantic provinces, where 44 per cent agree.

Where the threat to unity originates is a matter of contention.

One-third of Canadians think Alberta is the greatest threat to national unity, while 50 per cent say it is Quebec. Twenty-three per cent of Canadians expect that Quebec will separate in the next decade, while 19 per cent of Canadians think Alberta will secede in that time.