A loveless marriage — that's how one potential Alberta separatist sees Alberta's relationship to Canada.

"If we just got a little bit of love, we'd probably be satisfied. But I don't think it's coming," said Cynthia Mackenzie, a retired real estate agent and grandmother from Calgary.

She looked around at the standing-room only crowd of roughly 1,000 at the Astoria Banquet Hall in northeast Calgary on Monday night. It was a public town hall on options and a potential referendum for Alberta indepen…