Posted on 05/05/2025 8:17:52 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The premier of the resource-rich Canadian province of Alberta said it will hold a referendum next year that could include a vote on whether to separate from Canada.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith doesn’t support separation, she said on the province’s government web site and her Facebook page, but added that in the event citizens in Alberta gather the necessary signatures, then a question about Alberta separation could be part of the 2026 ballot. “Our government will respect the democratic process,” she said.
Her remarks are the latest salvo from the oil- and gas-producing province after the federal Liberals won a fourth term in an April 28 election. Smith, business leaders and Alberta citizens harbor deep frustration about Liberal environmental policy in the past decade that they claim has thwarted the province’s economic outlook. The measures include a ban on tankers shipping crude oil in northwest British Columbia, a cap on carbon emissions from the energy sector, and a more stringent environmental-assessment process.
Last week, Smith warned policymakers in Ottawa that the province would no longer tolerate “hostile acts” from Ottawa. She reiterated that message in Monday’s address to Albertans.
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Premier Smith is laying down the markers daring Carney to stand in her way on provincial economic sovereignty.
If Carney gets in her face then public support for independence and her support for independence will emerge.
Too Late....
Premier Smith is laying down the markers daring Carney to stand in her way on provincial economic sovereignty.
If Carney gets in her face then public support for independence and her support for independence will emerge.
I'd bet money that, come what may, Alberta remains with Canada.
Possible, next year, maybe, will ask voters a question
they sound fired-up...
It's all talk. They're not happy with Ottawa but they'll rather suffer under the status quo.
Albert might be doing the same.
I wouldn’t mind if Alberta or other conservative controlled Canadian provinces formed their own country or joined the u.s.a. maybe split B.C. into rural(conservative) and urban(lib) and get rural b.c....very rich country. Let the Ottawans and quebecois stew in their own woke “poopoo”.
Wonder what the eastern provinces will do.
It has to get bad enough to cause a commitment to separating.
We would lose Vancouver ports but most of BC supports conservatism. They just don’t have the population to overcome Vancouver numbers.
It was like that during the covid mandates.
That’s why we split the province. I would venture to guess that there are more than a few venues along the b.c. coast where a deep water port could be built....what does Vancouver have to export? Crops? Oil? Coal? Wood?
Um, no!
Alberta gives $25-30Billion CDN to d’Ottawa in the form of ‘equalization payments’, designed to assist poorer Provinces. Somehow, Quebec continually gets 80+% of that, each and every year. On top of that, Quebec will not allow an oil and NG pipelines to cross their territory, allowing it to get to tidewater and be sold to Europe.
We just want to keep what is ours! Unlike Quebec, we do not DEMAND what is someone else’s, just what is OURS!
In an abusive marriage, eventually the abused partner wants out. AB is, and has been for decades, abused by d’Ottawa. We want out!
They can become our 51st state. Alberta is like Texas North.
Nithing but hot Asian females.
It’s sort of like 1774 in a countdown to action, the main problem is not a lack of interest or belief in necessity, but an absence of structure. There is no real organization to western Canada independence and a general sort of 2:1 split between outright independence or seeking U.S. statehood. If the dynamics changed, that 2:1 could go a different direction. I think a lot of pro-sovereignty people in western Canada are a bit skeptical that Trump-style politics will last much longer than it takes to join the Union and then we get stuck with Newsom or AOC which might be worse than the Laurentian elites who at least want to be warm at night. This is no sort of country to be experimenting with green energy grids.
A big problem is access to Pacific. The entire B.C. coast is politically leftist all the way up to the Alaska panhandle, it’s not just Vancouver but Vancouver Island, and Prince Rupert is also a New Democrat town. There’s nothing much in between and very difficult logistics, plus native bands already signalling they want no part of a breakaway from Canada.
It’s not going to be an easy thing but nothing worth doing is ever easy. But Liberals will make it easier if they go into their “we know best just shut up” mode. You saw how well that worked for Kamala Harris. I think Joe Biden did better because he probably knew how to game the system but also he said almost nothing in his campaign for president. This is always a winning strategy for idiots.
All talk. Canadians don’t have any fight in them. They are content with their King and their welfare state.
It will get about as far as a referendum to eliminate property taxes.
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