EDMONTON — Former Alberta politician Thomas Lukaszuk is a man on a not-so-lonely mission to keep Canada from splitting.

"This has become a full-time job. I'm very passionate about this," the former Progressive Conservative deputy premier said in Edmonton last week.

As people trickled in and out of a local legion, a table full of volunteers helped them officially put their name to Lukaszuk's cause.

"When we get to 300,000 signatures, believe it or not, this will be the biggest petition in the history of Canada," said Lukaszuk.

Lukaszuk's Forever Canadian project needs to collect 294,000 names on a petition to spur a referendum question that would ask if Alberta should make remaining in Canada its official policy.

It needs all those names before the end of October.

It's also up against

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