The Alberta Next panel will host a final in-person town hall in Calgary at the end of the month.

Premier Danielle Smith’s Alberta Next panel, aimed at wrenching more political control from Ottawa, was spurred to take action in Grande Prairie Wednesday.

The panel is expected to eventually pick six ideas that could become potential referendum questions, and the naysayers were again outnumbered in a packed house of more than 500 attendees.

Many who spoke at the mic pushed Smith to take the panel’s proposals further.

Those ideas include withdrawing from the Canada Pension Plan, withholding social services from some immigrants, taking more control over tax collection and replacing the RCMP.

Smith, in her closing remarks, said she might take action on some of the files without any public

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