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Either Alberta gets fair treatment from Ottawa or the province must seriously pursue independence, says Freedom Conservative Leader Derek Fildebrandt.

That’s the centrepiece of his party’s 2019 election platform, unveiled Thursday in Calgary.

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Fildebrandt, member for Strathmore-Brooks, told Postmedia he doesn’t currently favour Alberta separating from Canada but the status quo is unacceptable.

Within one year of the provincial election, his party wants Alberta’s government to have come to an agreement with the feds on major constitutional reform or face an independence referendum.

“If we are going to see any kind of change, we have to show we’re serious and we mean it,” he said.

“I believe we owe it to ourselves and other Canadians to do everything we possibly can to make confederation work, but merely sucking up to Ottawa the way the NDP does or complaining and grumbling about Ottawa like the Toris do is not going to achieve anything except for throwing us the odd bone.”