51st state? Alberta’s break-up talk with Canada gets real: ‘It’s time that we’re set free’

NY Post ^ | 05/10/2025 | Gabrielle Fahmy

[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.

[redfreedom]

We don’t need another Kalifornia. A Kalifornia conservative republican is merely a democrat lite meaning they are not as radical as the hard left. But they do vote for the socialist agenda all the time. They are RINO’s.

I’ve visited Manitoba many times. The people are very nice, but they are socialists. They thought obama was God’s gift to the world. They are stuck on socialist “free” stuff that is raising the taxes of farmers and businesses to pay for this free stuff.

Alberta is no different. We do not need another a herd of people raised on socialism.

If Canada had let Quebec secede decades ago they likely would not be having their current problems.

[redfreedom]

BC? You’ve got to be kidding. Canada has it’s left coast like we do. BC is the lefty-est of Canada’s lefty’s.

[redfreedom]

BINGO!

[Buttons12]

“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.”

We’re feeling like that here in the coal region of PA.

[daku]

How about three more states
1 Alberta
2 Greenland
3 The Moon

[Albion Wilde]

Throw in Saskatchewan, BC, NW Territories and the Yukon and it’s a deal. All the way to Alaska.

We should have everything except Newfoundland, Labrador and the northern part of Quebec above the St. Lawrence River that flows to Lake Ontario. We keep the rest including Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick ad Nova Scota, plus the part of Quebec below the St. Lawrence River. UK can keep Newfoundland and Labrador; and dump Quebec onto France.

[Reverend Wright]

All they have to do is start the Referendum process, and then the Elites lose control of it.

David Cameron promised a Referendum in order to win the Conservative Leadership. He never had any intention of holding it if he thought it would pass.

These Elites get fooled by their push polls and call referendums where they are defeated again and again and again and again:

Ireland Constitutional reform, Australia “Voice”, Brexit, Maastrich, Norway EU Membership, Charlottetown Accord, Sweden EU Membership, Quebec Separation, ...

Once these elites start the referendum process then have no control about where it will end up.

[Verginius Rufus]

Newfoundland only joined Canada in 1949.

I think the northern part of Quebec is mostly inhabited by Indians and/or Eskimos/Inuit. So maybe northern Quebec and Nunavut could become an independent indigenous-nations country.