Jeffrey Rath, the caricature of an Alberta separatist who happens to be Alberta’s best-known separatist at the moment, isn’t right about much.

But he was right when he got up at the recent United Conservative Party annual general meeting and told the premier that her party was a separatist party now.

“Their party wants a free and independent Alberta and they better start leading like we’re going to become that country, because that’s what their members demand,” Rath, who wore a black ball cap to the late-November AGM instead of one of his trademark cowboy hats, told a reporter after his convention-floor speechifying.