Loud cheers for mass deportations and Alberta separation were the peaks of an otherwise tame and quiet town hall for Premier Danielle Smith’s Alberta Next panel in Lloydminster.

Smith’s panel, which is touring the province to hear from the public on ways to shield the province from federal overreach, drew a friendly crowd of about 350 to a public recreation centre Wednesday night.

The panel’s pre-selected topics, which range from asking Albertans if they’d support creating a provincial pension plan to supporting changes to the Canadian constitution, we’re easily approved by the crowd.

Some said Smith needed to just get to work already.

“I’d like to change all these questions instead of ‘should Alberta’, to Alberta should,” said Rick Strankman, a former provincial legislature member who

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