The BTs, to their credit, were mostly unenthusiastic. In any case skepticism is in order. The claim to fund-raising cash is a little bit hard to believe, but let's leave that aside, since it is unlikely that the WBTA's funding will ever be transparent enough that this could be proven or disproven.
The claim to have the support former MPs, on the other hand, is striking, since these should eventually come forward to support the group. Who could they be?
Two names that come to mind are Myron Thompson and Darrel Stinson, who caused a bit of a scandal back in 2001 when they attended the founding convention of the Alberta Independence Party. (See an old essay of Andrew Coyne criticizing them for this archived here.)
Regardless of whether these are the former MPs who support Crutcher's new group, it'll be interesting to hear who else is involved in this new separatist group.
Other posts in this series:
- separatists on parade, 1: Erik Gregson
- separatists on parade, 2: WBTA claims to have ex-MPs
- Separatists on parade, 3: western separatists in the CPC
- Separatists on parade, 4: Erik Gregson to chair WBTA convention
- Separatists on parade, 5: Separatists bungle copy-and-paste
- Separatists on parade, 6: Erik Gregson comes out of the closet
