Lloydminster weighs fallout of Alberta separation vote - Meridian Source

File photoAs Albertans head to the polls for the final day of voting in Alberta’s referendum on Monday, residents of Lloydminster are grappling with a question most Canadians never have to consider: what happens to a city when the province it’s half built in decides to leave the country? Read more: Sask. building permits jump 32.5 per cent, builders eye regionLloydminster is split almost evenly down the middle by the Alberta-Saskatchewan border, with roughly 32,000 people living under one municipal government but two provincial governments. The city’s RCMP detachment sits on the Alberta side. Its only hospital sits on the Saskatchewan side. Schools teach the Saskatchewan curriculum citywide, and the whole arrangement runs on a charter signed by both provinces. That charter, not a federal treaty, is what makes the Border City work. Former Lloydminster mayor Jeff Mulligan, who was in office when the charter was last updated in 2013, says it was never built to survive one of its two partners leaving Canada. “That charter is signed on by two provinces, not a province and a separate country,” Mulligan told CTV News.