Danielle Smith has a long history of putting her survival ahead of principle. In politics and in journalism, where we were briefly colleagues at Global News.

I am therefore not at all surprised that at this most perilous moment in the future of Canada, she will create the conditions to destabilize us with a unity crisis completely of her own making and her own self interest.

She has fashioned a referendum question most likely to gain the largest support because there are few consequences for giving separation a path.