American here. If you’re an Albertan, and you really think you’ll get a better deal down here, then I have a bridge to sell you, and a ticket to CECOT.
Elbows up, my friends and neighbors to the north. The stupidity is being exported.
I’m of the opinion, that if the wrong actions are taken, we’re in the opening stage of what is essentially another Crimean Crisis.
and the Crimean Crisis directley led to full scale war less than 10 years later
hé, I’m in Québec, I’d need a nice ride in buses with thousands of others Canadians to tell Alberta we love them!
“To be clear from the outset, our government will not be putting a vote on separation from Canada on the referendum ballot,” Smith said on Monday.
“However, if there is a successful citizen-led referendum petition that is able to gather the requisite number of signatures requesting such a question to be put on a referendum, our government will respect the democratic process and include that question on the 2026 provincial referendum ballot, as well.”
…and if they can’t get the required number of signatures, they’ll just keep lowering the requirements until they do. “With respect to the citizen-led democratic process”, of course.
There seems to be a degree of confidence here that they wouldn’t choose to leave. Don’t be so sure. BC and Saskatchewan may vary a bit politically, but Alberta (with the exception of the two urban centres) has pretty much solidly been in the camp of “fuck the rest of the country, we got ours” for as far back as I can remember… and I’m 46.
They can’t actually leave. The lands are indigenous and have not been ceded to the province or the crown. There are treaties allowing the crown to use them (in this case, as the province of Alberta), but basically it’s as though I’ve got a tenant in a bedroom saying he’s going to keep the bedroom, stop paying rent, and he owns it now.
