Posted on 05/25/2026 5:28:16 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Monday compared Alberta’s vote on whether to move toward independence to Brexit, calling it a potential “dangerous bluff.”
Danielle Smith, the premier of Canada’s oil-rich province of Alberta, said last week a vote would be held Oct. 19 on whether Alberta should stay in Canada or take legal steps under the Constitution to hold a binding referendum on leaving.
Carney drew on his experience with Brexit in his comments. Carney was the governor of the Bank of England in 2016 when Britain voted to leave the European Union, and he helped navigate the central bank through it.
“I saw firsthand what happened in the United Kingdom when the view was, ‘Vote for this, it’ll be soft and then we’ll negotiate, etc.,’ Carney said. “They’re still 10 years later trying to undo what people didn’t think they were voting for, but what they ended up having.”
Smith’s party didn’t run on or mention a referendum in the last provincial election campaign.
Carney said the vote is not helpful when he’s trying to attract investment to Canada. He suggested it is undemocratic.
“Is it the democratic will of Albertans? Did they vote for this in the last provincial election? No, they didn’t. It wasn’t on the ballot paper,” Carney said.
Smith has said she supports Alberta remaining in Canada. Some have compared her stance to the one of Britain’s then-Prime Minister David Cameron ahead of the Brexit referendum, which he embraced as a way to manage a vocal faction of his ruling party while not wanting the U.K. to leave the European Union.
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Albertans are less likely to bluff, because they know there is less to gain and more to lose.
Carney Barker is like most Euroweenie Apparatchiks. If he could, he would eliminate the right to vote.
Possible scenario -- Alberta a close ally of the USA (or maybe something closer), independent Quebec a neutral trading partner of the USA.
Carney is also planning on tripling the tax on companies like Netflix and Disney
This surprises me! Him saying this makes me think that HE thinks it’s possible that they vote for it. AND that it’s legal for them to do so.
CURIOUS!
Does this make Carney an election denier?
Let’s make a deai:
Alberta for Minnestoa.
If Quebec is offered an Economic Association deal with the USA, they will take it in a heartbeat. (inside the US economic area, convert to $US, like Puerto Rico)
(even if they lose the subsidies from Canada)
On Alberta, the Ottawa-Regime seems to have switched from ridiculing the possibility of AB Separation due to low support, to claiming how “dangerous” and “undemocratic” and destructive” it is.
We might need to throw in Cali, Oregon, Washington and New Yorkia, but hey.
Metro NYC, yea verily.
But not upstate NY minus Ithica!
,,, wonderful - Carney demonstrtaes his ability to look back. October 19 will be here soon enough and that will start the ball rolling. Alberta would be a good fit but Quebec, non. Not that there's any vigor in the prospect for Quebec. Maybe Carney should be eyeing Greenland to replace Alberta... oh, too late for that LOL!!
That’s not what he fears. If Alberta leaves, Saskatchewan is extremely likely to leave. Manitoba is likely to go if AB and SK go. British Columbia might or might not, hard to but if AB, SK and MB go, that’s much of Canada’s hard currency economy gone and the supermajority of their government funding. Those provinces pay for most of the rest of Canada.
Also, the problem with Brexit isn’t that it was a bad idea - it’s that it was woefully mismanaged by the professional government classes in the UK.
Intentionally?
Regards,
Debatable, but seems likely.
“In the U.S., even as a state, it would have less influence than Ohio. “
LOL !
They are not interested in being a State, they want to be sovereign, and run their own operation.
The ideal for them would be something like American Samoa: free trade area with the USA, not subject to Supreme court rulings, not subject to the Draft, “US Nationals” which means they have he right to live and work in the USA, but are not citizens.
Also because they are closer they would want to convert to the $US ad be free of the $CDN.
In return, USA gets a totally compliant ally, permanent bases ceded on the Arctic Coast, an immigration agreement where Quebec doesn’t become a pass thru, and breaks up Canada and gets either annexation of what they want, or Territory status for the pieces they want.
Carney, typical of all globalists, make a mess wherever they land.
Carney spent a year doing nada, no returns for his efforts.
Justin from Canada spent his years following the EU path and flushed Canada in the process.
Carney was the architect of Canada’s current dismal situation
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