Posted on 05/10/2025 2:47:18 PM PDT by DFG
Alberta’s threat to divorce Canada is getting more serious than ever.
Premier Danielle Smith announced this week that the oil-rich province could hold its first-ever referendum on independence in 2026, as the area’s pro-51st state activists ramp up calls to ditch the Great White North in favor of the star-spangled banner.
“Staying with Canada is finished,” Alberta resident Steve Harvey, 52, told The Post. “We’ve been an eagle locked up in a cage for decades because of Canada. It’s time that we’re set free.”
Alberta’s beef with Canada comes from growing anger over what’s viewed as the Liberal government chocking the province’s oil industry.
“They’ve blocked new pipelines, cancelled various oil and gas projects and banned the very tanker ships needed to carry these resources to new markets,” Smith said this week in a livestreamed address to Albertans.
“We just want to be free to develop and export that incredible wealth of resources we have for the benefit of our families and future generations.”
Fed up Albertans, who held a separation rally last week at the Edmonton legislature attended by close to 500, are also urging their countrymen to write to the White House to express support to join the union.
“This thing is real. There is momentum,” said Edmonton resident Jordon Kosik, who runs a Facebook group advocating for Alberta separation.
It’s a standoff that’s been going on for years, but discontent has brewed stronger lately, with many Albertans emboldened by President Trump’s calls to make Canada his “cherished 51st state.”
Last week’s Liberal win was the last straw for many.
“I made it clear that Albertans will no longer tolerate the way we’ve been treated by the federal Liberals over the past 10 years,” a fed-up Smith warned in March after meeting new Prime Minister Mark Carney.
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Edmonton rules Alberta. It’s full of globalist progressives and foreigners.
Throw in Saskatchewan, BC, NW Territories and the Yukon and it’s a deal. All the way to Alaska.
Alberta actually gets taxed so that money can be sent to other poorer provinces.
Edmonton rules Alberta. It’s full of globalist progressives and foreigners.”
I would agree, I don’t see the province voting to split. If they ever do the world would be shocked at how quickly they became a thriving and successful country since they wouldn’t have the Canadian socialists standing on their necks.
Offer them the same status Puerto Rico.
BC has some real left coast whackos ala Oregon and CalFornicators.
Except for BC I think you are right, Vancouver pretty much rules BC.
If it looks to be that low, then I predict they won’t even hold the referendum.
Separatist movements in Canada are not serious affairs. They’re designed to build leverage against the federal government, which means the best scenario for a province is to have a separation referendum fail by a very narrow margin. Because the last thing any of those provinces want is a referendum like that to PASS.
People of Alberta WILL decide,not us....
Infact,perhaps Alberta will accept some of us in the northwest to become one of them.
Trade rich coastal areas with strategic naval bases, home to Microsoft, Amazon and Boeing for frozen tundra that wants to join us anyways? You may want to rethink that.
Trump throws one little bone....and we’re 100s of articles down the road on something that will never happen. lol
Nope. The party in power will gladly crush with any means necessary. Everyone can waste time dreaming of Alberta separating it’s your life but it will never happen.
Sounds right.
Alberta may face the same speed bump that Quebec did, namely, they were told if they separated that they would have to take with them their share of the national debt. Canada has a crushing national debt that, in proportion, is just as onerous as the US national debt.
Perhaps they’d prefer to be a separate nation, not part of the U.S.
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