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QUEBEC — Premier François Legault has offered some advice to Justin Trudeau to preserve national unity: give the provinces more autonomy.

But Legault does not put much stock in the possible emergence of a Western separatist movement.

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“We’re not there, I don’t think Mr. Kenney (the Alberta premier) is there either,” Legault told reporters arriving for question period at the legislature Wednesday.

Two days after a federal election that left Canada badly divided between the west and east, Legault — a former sovereignist cabinet leader who abandoned that vision and created the Coalition Avenir Québec — was asked about Western alienation, which is once again on the rise.

And in Quebec, the pro-independence Bloc Québécois elected 32 MPs to the House of Commons Monday as a wave of Quebec nationalism swept the province.

In his own post-election remarks Wednesday, Legault warned Ottawa to not be tempted to intrude in areas of provincial jurisdiction. And he said the election result shows Quebecers are nationalists and wanted to send a message to Trudeau to not get involved in a Bill 21 challenge.