Macleans.ca: Deputy prime minister doubts new western separatist movement has legs

Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan doesn't believe the latest attempt to raise a western separatist movement will go far. Fringe politician Doug Christie, co-founder of the Western Canada Concept, was holding a recruitment meeting Saturday near Edmonton for a new federal party. (...) Christie, a Victoria lawyer, is a champion of free speech and has defended Holocaust deniers Jim Keegstra and Ernst Zundel. He has also represented David Ahenakew, a former aboriginal leader charged with inciting hatred against Jews. siehe auch: Western separatism floated. Fringe politician talks of 'new nation', Deputy prime minister doubts new western separatist movement has legs