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Premier Jason Kenney and hockey crank Don Cherry went off at nearly the same moment Saturday.

Cherry got more national attention and deserved every negative word. The media eruption showed what’s really important in this country — Coach’s Corner.

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Kenney could hardly be ignored, though.

In a long and passionate speech in Red Deer, he laid out a series of prescriptions for improving Alberta’s health in Canada.

This was instantly painted as a path to separatism by the NDP and other critics. Kenney is, in their view, the Don Cherry of politicians — outdated and divisive.

But Kenney is actually being quite moderate. Everything on his long to-do list is permissible within Confederation.

You may like these ideas — Alberta pension plan, provincial police and tax collection, fixing the stabilization program — or you may truly hate them.

But to call them separatist is itself divisive. To say that a province can’t even discuss using its legitimate powers is what’s really un-Canadian.