In a charlesadler.com poll, 52 percent of respondents said that once the western separatist movement has a credible leader, it will take off like a prairie fire. The conversation was reignited because of a national post front page story that said fully 36 percent of voters in western canada under the age of 30 were open to the idea of separating their province from Canada...in my poll i asked several questions including this one? is separatism just a topic for kooks. Only 5 percent said it was.

For what it's worth, over 250 people voted in the poll, a sampling not any smaller than most national polls...One can argue about the accuracy of polls. But based on emails received one can no longer argue that separatism is something talked about only by kooks and fruit loops and other names that you want to use to label folks living on the margins of society and sanity.
If this subject isn't taken seriously by the feds, Canada will be the loser. The damage that the Martin government is doing to many people's sense of what Canada really is about, is astounding. Many people in Western Canada feel that a not so silent coup has taken place and that the country is run by a handful of pseudo intellectuals based in Canada's political triangle formed by Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa. If this feeling continues to deepen and a credible leader speaks to the feeling, it won't matter how many national pundits try to hang pejorative labels on Western Canadians....The more confident westerners become about their own possibilities and potential, the less interested they will be in hearing the pontificaitons of the national politicians and pundits.

A prairie fire can look like a pretty thing, unless you're a blade of wheat. There is a lot of Canadan wheat in the field. But there appears to be a drought of national dialogue. You don't have to be a farmer to know that droughts threaten crops. That's PrimeChuck. I'm CA