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I guarantee you this is some kind of Russian-backed bullshit.
I have absolutely no evidence or even any indication. But it is exactly the type of suggestion that makes 0% sense for someone to come up with on their own as a good idea, and 100% sense in terms of the way Russia likes to think about what they would like to see people talking about in countries they don't like. I doubt anyone is even looking at it as some kind of thing that even might happen, it's just some handy hostile bullshit to throw into the equation to keep everyone busy chasing their tails and arguing and frustrated instead of accomplishing anything running the country.
This has been Philip's Conspiracy Corner, tune in next week
Russia is for sure sowing seeds of doubt across all sorts of movements to politically disrupt us, but the whole reason separation is being taken at all seriously rests entirely on Danielle Smith. She thinks that legitimizing their concerns means that the UCP will stay together because the entire party is built on the idea of sharing a tent with fringe crazies. She's also encouraging all the talk about it because it is distracting from the government's ongoing scandals.
Hm
Theeeere it is.
Honestly? I knew I would find something.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle_Smith#Controversies
I'd still lean more towards her being a useful idiot, because as mentioned she necessarily courts all these conspiracy theories to keep the UCP together. But yeah, whether via Russian influence or her own stupidity, she is hugely responsible for this.