Canada... just north of here, right?
Just kidding. But it’s kinda funny. Canada is so quiet that I know zero about the politics up there. I mean, that entire post was Greek to me. I probably know more about the politics of Egypt than Canada.
Imagine California, but the size of the USSR.
Think Washington, District of Corruption, except because we have 1/10 the population, the ‘elites’ are much more concentrated in Ottawa-Gatineau and Montreal. In general, Canadians really liked Obola and dislike PDJT.
Because Quebecois (French Quebecers) make up 20-25% of the population and generally have a secular, strongly Jesuit-influenced belief system, they are often at odds with English Canada, which historically was English and Scottish protestant. For centuries, the Quebecois isolated themselves from the rest of Canada, quietly following the direction of their priests, to remain isolated from Canada and just keep on tithing to build magnificent cathedrals.
There was great discontent in Quebec, when conscription began during WW1. They thought of it as an ‘English War’ and wanted nothing to do with it. WW2 also brought a ‘conscription crisis’ in Quebec. In the ‘50s emerged the ‘quiet revolution’ in Quebec, where the Quebecois massively ditch the Roman Catholic faith, embracing secularism.
The Liberals realized that to maintain power, they started bringing in all kinds of Quebecois into the civil service, started making positions ‘bilingual manditory’ in places that were overwhelmingly English, and started giving billions to Quebec. This situation remains to this day. The French are overly represented in Cabinet, overly represented in the civil service, overly represented in transfer payments and overly represented in Federal government offices. (MANY Crown Corporations and Federal Agencies have head offices in Montreal.)
Since AB is, and has been for years, the principal source of ‘equalization payments’ that go primarily to Quebec, it is no surprise that a recent survey showed that 50% of the population in Alberta look favorably on separation.