Good day all. Canada has been having a pretty rough go of things for the last few years. First they had the tyrannical leadership of Castro’s Bastard, aka Justin Trudeau, and now they have some shill for the World Economic Forum mismanaging things.
One of the problems between Eastern Canada and the central/western provinces is economic. The province of Alberta is rich in resources, and the people are more independently minded then the people running the country. One of the issues has been how the Canadian government has basically been ripping off Alberta. It’s finally reaching a breaking point and there is serious work underway to secede. Now things are really ramping up. Here are the details from Newsmax:
Separatists in Alberta are ramping up a petition campaign aimed at triggering an independence vote in the western province that has long complained its economy is being held back by the rest of Canada.
Volunteer canvassers are hoping to collect by May 2 approximately 177,000 signatures, or 10% of the province’s registered voters, the threshold required to launch a citizen-led referendum on separation from Canada.
I will state for the record that I have no idea how the political system regarding provinces breaking away works. I also don’t know what the average voter in Alberta is thinking. What I do know is that people in Alberta are getting angry.
While unlikely to result in an independent Alberta, the campaign poses a challenge to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s efforts to show a united Canadian front in the face of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs and threats to annex the country.
Carney who took over from Trudeau, has shown that he is no different from his predecessor. He’s also coddling up to the Chinese Communist government and there is real concern that Canada might just invite the Red Chinese in. (As in military forces) As to President Trump’s claims to want to annex Canada, that was his usual trolling of leftists and as usual, the leftists swallowed, hook, line and sinker.
In the picturesque town of High River in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, a slow trickle of residents stopped by a quiet strip mall on a recent Thursday morning to sign their names to the independence petition. While some expressed personal admiration for Trump, most said joining the United States was not their goal — they want Alberta to be its own country instead.
While it would be nice to have Alberta as a territory and later a state, I think that they would be very successful as an independent country. I’m sure that President Trump would be happy to do some deals with them, and those deal will actually benefit the people of Alberta, (And the United States), instead of the Socialists of Eastern Canada.
A politically conservative province that produces most of Canada’s oil and gas, Alberta is home to long-running resentment among many that successive Liberal governments in Ottawa have hamstrung the industry’s profitability with onerous environmental regulations.
That they have. From what I understand, they’ve also been taking most of the money for themselves as well.
Jeff Rath, the firebrand spokesman for the Alberta Prosperity Project group that supports independence, says the separatist movement is gaining pace. He confirmed he and other activists met with U.S. State Department officials in Washington in January to get a sense of how the U.S. administration would respond to an independent Alberta.
One good thing is that this isn’t the Biden Maladministration’s State Department with Secretary of State, the incompetent Antony “Stinkin” Blinken or the utterly corrupt Obama Secretary of State Felonia von Pantsuit. Blinken would have been all in with Trudeau sending in troops to suppress the Albertans and Felonia would have just held out her hand expecting a bribe.
Rath said he floated the idea of a new oil pipeline from Alberta to the United States — which he said U.S. officials responded to positively, noting their concerns on Ottawa’s plans to sell more energy to China.
That would replace the KeystoneXL Pipeline that President Trump approved and that Biden, in a fit of Never Trump mania, canceled just before it was completed. I can see a ton of potential money making plans that benefit both sides. (And screw over Ottawa)
Asked about reports that Trump administration officials had met with Alberta separatists seeking independence, Carney has said he expected the U.S. “to respect Canadian sovereignty.”
Canada is the world’s fourth largest oil producer, and oil and gas is the country’s most valuable export product. The vast majority of Canadian oil and gas is produced in Alberta, where the energy sector is a significant employer and oil and gas tax revenues contribute substantially to provincial government coffers.
I wonder just how much more money would flood into the “Treasury of the Nation of Alberta” once the shackles of the central government in Ottawa were thrown off? I suspect it won’t be a small amount. Add to that everything else that the new nation could set up, things like banking and financial services, food, manufacturing, literally the sky is the limit. I also think they would get a ton of investment offers from the United States.
Data shows the province contributed almost as much to Canada’s economic growth in 2024 as the country’s most populous province Ontario, even though Alberta’s population is three times smaller.
That’s probably due to the Canadian government basically looting the province.
Several separatists Reuters spoke to declined to be named out of fear of facing criticism from neighbors. Recent polling shows separatist sentiment is not backed by the majority in Alberta, with 71% of residents polled wanting to remain in Canada.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s government made several legislative changes last year making it easier for separatists to trigger a referendum, including cutting the number of required signatures in half.
Well, that is interesting. I suspect that she might be interested in becoming the first Prime Minister, or President, depending on how they configure their new government, of the Free Nation of Alberta.
She said she has been working with Carney to address frictions between Alberta and the federal government.
That must have been an interesting meeting. As I’ve mentioned, I don’t follow Canadian politics all that much unless it gets loud or the Canadian leadership decides to go all totalitarian…again.
“It’s absolutely bonkers,” said Duane Bratt, a political science professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary.
“Smith may say that she’s not a separatist, but she has gone out of her way many times to make it easier for a separatist referendum to be held.”
One of the things that could happen if Alberta does vote to secede will be a renewed secession movement in Quebec. That province is, to be honest, a real pain for the rest of Canada. They’re primary language is French, since they were originally a French colony and like the French, they think they’re better then everyone else. I suspect that if Alberta goes, Quebec won’t be far behind. That will lead to a complete break up of Canada since both the eastern and western coastal provinces will be cut off.
Carney has sought to fend off the Alberta separatist movement by offering concessions, including signing an agreement with Smith in November to roll back certain climate rules and encourage construction of a new oil pipeline to the West Coast.
“Canada’s new government is engaged in renewing the Canada-Alberta relationship based on common objectives and respect,” Gabriel Brunet, a spokesman for Dominic LeBlanc, Canada’s minister for intergovernmental affairs said in a statement.
I think that it’s a day late and a dollar short. I can’t say if Alberta will vote to secede, but if they do, it will be the beginning of the end for Canada, especially for the ruling elites. Now it is true that the people of the Province of Alberta might not want to become a state, but they should really think about this.
In fact, I would suggest that President Trump offer the Canadian government a deal. We get Alberta and the can have Minnesota and the northern part of Illinois, say down to Interstate 80. We can unload our troublemakers and we get those nice, hard working people in Alberta.
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