Stockwell Day supports Alberta vote on separation, doesnt think referendum would get 50% support [Video]

The Alberta separatist movement presents a danger to the federal Conservative party, said former Tory member of Parliament Stockwell Day.

“I’ll lose friends saying this: it will only split the vote and only strengthen the Liberal position,” he said in an interview from Edmonton.

In the most recent federal election, more than 1.4 million Albertans voted for a Conservative candidate and elected 34 of the party’s 143 MPs.

Day said both an independent Alberta and a separatist party similar to the Bloc Québécois would risk fracturing Conservative support.

The former leader of the Canadian Alliance, who was also a minister in Stephen Harper’s cabinet from 2006 to 2011, said he’s “as outraged and upset” as the people behind the Alberta separation movement.

“I support everything the separatists are talking about in terms of provincial rights,” he said, adding that holding a referendum might help people in other parts of the …