Posted on 10/29/2019 7:58:22 AM PDT by DFG
Confused by Brexit? Get ready for “Wexit.”
Political leaders representing a large chunk of Canada are talking about breaking off from the rest of the country in the wake of Justin Trudeau’s re-election victory — and this time they’re not primarily in French-speaking Quebec, long known for its independent streak.
Instead, it’s the country’s western, oil-dependent provinces fueling the breathless talk of secession, amid a perception that Trudeau and eastern urban liberals are calling the shots at their expense. And it's emerging as one of Trudeau’s most complicated headaches as the Prime Minister moves toward the start of his second term next month.
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“Is it real? Yeah. People are mad,” Randy Hoback, a Conservative Party member of Parliament in central Saskatchewan told POLITICO. “I’ve never seen it like this.”
Citizens in the Western provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan agitated for political change in Ottawa over the last year as attempts to build a coastal pipeline expansion continued to falter and as farmers got trounced by trade tiffs with China.
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Couldn’t happen to a more evil and dumb jerk, Justin Trudeau, and his dumb left wing voters.
This would be great.
We would welcome a few more conservative Senators, Representatives and GOP electoral votes.
That would be great. Alberta would finally have the shackles removed just watch what would happen. That said I don’t see it actually happening.
Ping.
This would be awesome. I used to work with a fellow from western Canada about 10 or 15 years ago. He was telling me that they were pissed off then and wanted to break off and form their own country.
Can’t believe that clown got reelected!
They should just do it. Hold a vote of the people. Trudeau is not a Lincoln - he won’t go to war to preserve the union. Alberta could then at some point apply for statehood.
A bigger Montana and Saskatchewan could be greater Dakota
I see more electoral votes
We should offer them statehood, bigly!
No, add them as separate states to the union. That would give 4 new GOP Senators and additional electoral votes.
Or we could offer them a trade: New England for Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan.
1. I don't see western Canada ever joining the U.S. As bad as things may seem up there, they'd be a hell of a lot worse for them if they were U.S. states. Would you rather have Justin Trudeau or Nancy Pelosi calling the shots in your national legislature? Ottawa is a den of dopey misfits compared to the totalitarianism that pervades in Washington, D.C.
2. Independence for western Canada seems more realistic, but I don't see that ever happening if the regions seceding from Canada are landlocked.
Sorry, but western provinces have been getting hosed by the eastern urban centers for a long long time... I’ll believe the western provinces will leave Canada when I see it....
Complaints over an election result, do not a secession movement make.
No different than in the US, where California sets some stupid state standard, and companies modify their products for everyone just so they can keep selling in California.. so everyone gets hosed because California decides to do something stupid.
That’s true
IIRC, Obama endorsed Trudeau. I just wonder if Obama also exported young Leftists to help with ballot harvesting to boost Trudeau? Just asking.
>>We would welcome a few more conservative Senators, Representatives and GOP electoral votes
Ummm.. “Conservative” in Canada is still “Socialist” in America. Those would be Democrat Senators, Representatives and electoral votes...
2. Independence for western Canada seems more realistic, but I don’t see that ever happening if the regions seceding from Canada are landlocked.
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Interestingly, back in the early ‘90s when I was learning a few things and becoming slightly less ignorant about US’s northern neighbor after the Quebecois independence thing had flared up, it was British Columbia that they had said was most likely to want to join the U.S. But I suspect that in the intervening decades they shifted a bit toward that coastal liberalism phenomenon.
Big difference between the US system and the parliamentary system in Canada...there are separation of powers and often divided government here in the US. In Parliament, if the liberals win, they control everything. In the US, you have to control the Presidency and both houses of Congress. It does not happen often.
Plus, if in the US, Alberta and Saskatchewan would have other states as allies. They would not be on their own fending off the federal government.
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