Oh, Albertans can leave Canada, alright… by emigrating through the border to America at the 49th parallel.
Yep. They don’t get the land; just a bus ticket.
Why the fuck is there even a poll for this? Can you fucking please stop legitimizing trump bullshit and just arrest and jail Smith for treason?
Alberta stays. The traitor separatists can fuck off to the US.
I’ll willing to pool some money to ship them straight into an ICE detention centre in the US where they want to be.
I was hoping for some kind of like-for-like trade. US gets Alberta. Canada gets Minnesota.
The most left wing states are further right than any Canadian province.
Brother, how many times did Toronto elect Rob Ford?
Same as Ontario electing Drug Fraud multiple times.
That’s because the T. is a shithole.
[Laughs in Bernie Sanders]
Like, sure, some portion of blue states vote red, because there’s no credible third option. Other than that there’s no real grounds for this.
Bernie would be a right winger in Canada.
Which of his policies have we exceeded? His medical plan included dental care, which we still don’t have for everyone. We have no wealth tax. We’re car-centric. It goes on.
thats a great deal
The interesting thing is that that’s pretty close to the numbers in Alberta itself.
Another example of the fact that 20-30% of people are totally irrational, and this demographic is well distributed and not region specific.
Yeah, maybe. I have to wonder if there’s an element of “kick them out” in there as well.
Could be. I think that would be unfortunate. AB’s provincial government has gone rogue, and there is a very vocal minority of crazy people. The majority of Albertans are rational, reasonable people and the province has a lot to offer Canada.
that’s my opinion. All Alberta does for Canada is produce christofascist politicians
Well, what’s Saskatchewan done this century, then?
Leave the scapegoating to those chritsofascists.
Christofascist politicians.
Like Heather McPherson, Corey Hogan, Mel Hurtig, the current prime minister…
Need I go on?
So what the fuck is the deal with the referendum they have planned about whether Alberta should take control of who is allowed to immigrate there?? They’ve been bragging how there are no rats in Alberta so long, it’s gone to their heads. I can’t think of a province or state in the world that has those powers.
I only just heard about this, but presumably she knows a sovereignty referendum will fail, so she’s going to find something nobody will be strongly motivated to vote against, but which will still cause constitutional conflict she can exploit to further the separatist cause.
Normal traitor stuff.
I keep hearing from separatists how popular the idea is, but I’ve only ever seen one or two people at a folding table on their phone.
Ah, but by only talking to each other, they can get the apparent rate close to 100%.
Literally what seems to be happening, including in the legislature.
If tariffs come in and Canada attempts to use oil as leverage against the US after they blocked a pipeline east and west I could see Albertans being angry.
They want to exploit the oil, for leverage and equalization, while providing none of the support for it. Separation at least gives Alberta a bargaining chip for concessions, this is peoples livelihood after all.
They’ve had EVERY opportunity to diversify. Fuck their livelihoods
We’ve kinda earned that, yeah. For example, Norway’s sovereign wealth was inspired by ours. It’s now the biggest investor in the world, while the Heritage Fund was periodically emptied out to save whatever politician’s job.
In our defence, it’s not different from Newfoundland and the cod fishery. People are dumb and shortsighted everywhere.
Too bad the heritage fund was squandered for blatant political purposes, rather than being used for its intended purpose.
That’s not to the Canadian as whole to choose. That’s for Albertan to decide. If I’m not mistaken 75% are against so who cares what Canadian are thinking
This is literally the work of foreign aggression. ATLAS network which is helping push this stuff is tied to groups like the heritage foundation. They have also directly met up with trump administration in support. Feeding separatism has been used both to destabilize, and as an excuse to “liberate” the oil from a country.
So fuck staying out of it.
It’s for all of Canada, and the international community to decide, and the requirements that a province needs to fulfill make separation legally impossible.
Add to that the fact that Alberta would be immediately annexed or even worse, turned into a conflict zone and then annexed makes talk of separation even more stupid. Ask yourself, how is Alberta going to defend itself when the largest organized fighting force left is the Alberta provincial police?
Thirdly, the economy would collapse overnight, since Alberta (the country) has no currency, and all resource contracts are with Alberta (a part of Canada), not Alberta (the country). Alberta would have to re-negotiate resource contracts with all the companies in it’s (theoretically) only profitable sector in a currency that doesn’t exist and no other country in the world trades in.
That’s not even counting the fact that Alberta (the country) wouldn’t even exist after separation since a country needs to be recognized as a country by other nations. What would likely happen is Russia and probably a couple other BRICS countries would officially recognize them and the US would immediately move to invade and annex the province to get to the oil sands. The end result of that is Alberta becomes (at best) a US territory, but more likely a vassal state or simply a war zone if the remainder of Canada decides it wants to push it’s claim to re-take Alberta… as a territory.
But, all of that is still virtually impossible, as Canadian law as well as rulings from the Supreme Court have clearly laid out what is required to even start considering separation, and the federal government can still unilaterally reject it.
Some info on the matter: https://policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/02/alberta-separation-illegal/
It’s Treatied land between the First Nations and CANADA; not Albertans.
In theory, maybe that’s true. But historically, if Small Part of Larger Entity tries to break off, Larger Entity generally has a say in it.
Generally. In Canada things have happened, though, and we’ve kind of established participation is voluntary.
However, Alberta’s First Nations are not willing to play ball. And, y’know, Albertans in general hate the idea, so this is all hypothetical anyway.
My point was more that regardless of what is officially allowed (hence my “in theory”), history has shown that the magic of Bigger Army Diplomacy usually has a say in things.
Tell that to Quebec.
You mean the place that’s still a province despite decades of trying not to be? I think they’ve heard it.
I mean, I think Québec is very familiar with it.
Albertans can choose to leave the province. They don’t have the right to sell it to the US.
That’s not to the Canadian as whole to choose.
Hmm… sounds like Canada should nationalize everything in Alberta, just in case.
Absolutely, Canadian paid for pretty much everything petrol related in Alberta anyway
