Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's path back to the House of Commons runs through a rural Alberta riding that has become a hotbed for Western discontent and the independence movement — a potentially tricky situation to navigate for a leader with national ambitions. Poilievre, a Calgarian by birth who has lived away from Alberta for more than two decades, is running in the Aug. 18 byelection in Battle River-Crowfoot, a sprawling riding in the province's east where the oil and gas industry is a major employer ... ... while Poilievre faces only token partisan opposition in this byelection, there's another challenge: How he contends with an increasingly vocal separatist movement in the Conservative heartland ... CLICK HERE for the full story
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