Bell: Alberta separatists stumble and stagger and Elon Musk won't help

This time the hate won’t be coming from the progressive keyboard warriors who consider this humble scribbler a traitor, a full-throated quisling, a closet fascist, an enemy of Canada, an unrepentant peddler of lies.

Oh no, this time the incoming mouth-breathing artillery will almost certainly arrive by way of supporters of Alberta independence.

They will be those souls who can’t bear to look in the mirror and see their campaign to convince most Albertans it would be a heck of an idea to leave Canada has so far not worked.

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In fact, as a veteran onlooker of countless political campaigns and a player in a few vote-scrounging exercises, their campaign has not even tried to reach out to many of those undecided voters thinking about whether or not to support going down the route to Alberta independence.

For telling the truth, this ink-stained wretch who kickstarted his newsman career 36 years ago at the legendary Ted Byfield’s Alberta Report magazine will not be cast as a hopeless right-wing villain on this go-round.

Oh no, I will no doubt be written off as a globalist sack of manure, a mainstream media stooge bought and paid for by Eastern liberal elites, just another World Economic Forum-loving, New World Order loser.

Suddenly, though I’ve stood up for Alberta too many times to count, facing the heat for decades, they will not see I am telling them the truth.

They will make accusations with the confidence of someone who has not read what I’ve written in several thousand columns and millions of words.