The Canadian province set to vote on becoming a breakaway country

A MAGA baseball cap rests on the cafe's jukebox, but on this side of the US-Canada border, the acronym stands for Make Alberta Great Again.The cafe has become a meeting point for Alberta's separatists, who are pushing for the province to break away from Canada and form a new country. The movement is exposing deep fractures inside one of the world's most stable federations and shares striking similarities with Western Australia's historical secession attempts.Cafe patrons stop Scott to shake his hand We're fans," one says.Scott, who founded the pro-separatist group Let's Talk Alberta, hopes enough of those fans will vote in an upcoming referendum that could set Alberta on the path to independence."The facts point to an independent Alberta being far superior to what we're experiencing right now," Scott told the ABC."So I don't have a crystal ball, but I have hope."Alberta is a province of vast skies, endless prairies, towering mountains and abundant oil and gas fields that have made it one of Canada's economic powerhouses.Those natural resources provide for high employment and high incomes