Posted on 05/11/2025 4:25:03 PM PDT by Red Badger
Albrta’s Premiere Danielle Smith has floated a referendum on leaving Canada – and many citizens want to join the US.
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For someone who isn’t paying close attention, the current US-Canada bilateral relations seem like a defeat for the Donald J. Trump administrations, right?
Well, not so fast.
After highly unpopular Justin Trudeau resigned as Canadian PM, the ‘Trump tornado’ scrambled the internal politics in the northern neighbor, as the Conservatives could not navigate the tariffs threat and the suggestion that Canada should become the 51st US state.
So, yes – Mark Craney got yet another term as PM for the deranged Liberals – but there’s more to the story, besides a new trade deal that will end the US heavily subsidizing the Canadian economy.
It turns out that Alberta Province’s push to leave Canada is getting more serious by the day. And you’ll be surprised to know that many citizens want to join the good old US of A.
New York Post reported:
“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’.”
Separatists in Alberta.
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Alberta sees its prosperity as being usurped by a Liberal establishment embracing climate nonsense policies, and killing 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’.”
At a separation rally last week in front of the Edmonton legislature people urged citizens to write to the White House to express support to join the union.
Mark Carney’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.”
Recent opinion poll has support for Alberta separation at 36%. Premier Smith will trigger a referendum if a citizen-led petition can gather signatures from 10% of eligible voters.
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I recall Quebec had a referendum on leaving Canada a number of years ago. They voted narrowly to remain in Canada.
Apparently Canadian law will allow provinces to secede, with a vote of the people, and a negotiated settlement of withdrawal.
Unlike the U.S., as our laws and constitution do not have any provision for states to leave the union.
Now do Saskatchewan.
Territory yes, state no!
Carneys country is hemorrhaging manufacturing jobs add this to his worries and he may not very long as Prime Minister.
I’d like to see the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the NFL.
Alberta could conceivably decide to be an independent country, and not try to become a U.S. state. I’ve heard conflicting things about secession of Canadian provinces and what comes next after a vote to leave Canada.
If it comes to that, we Americans would have to decide, do we want to admit Alberta as a state, if they were free of Canada? We shouldn’t just have a knee jerk reaction to admit Alberta, if they get free of Canada.
My granddaughter went to Canada last week on a scouting trip. My husband had a bunch of Canadian money he had when he returned from his trips. He gave it to her to use. They didn’t want it. They preferred the good old American dollar.
They can’t join the USA until they deep-six “aboot” and “ay”!
And BC except Greater Vancouver.
“state no!”
We could get two more very conservative Senators.
Only as long as their ski lift ticket prices remain low.
Well yeah, that a 20% increase in value!................
Talk about cool, eh?
I don’t know if I want them as a state, they’d make the map of the USA look really goofy
What’s the actual support in Alberta for joining the US? Separatism isn’t the same thing as wanting to become the 51st state. If the support is there, it’s definitely worth considering for the US - as long as the two new Senators and however many House reps aren’t automatic Democrats. Canada as a whole, though - absolutely not.
Love to have ‘em. But only if they voluntarily do it. But they do know that we also have the degenerative and always fatal leftist disease of reverse economic and civic evolution.
I’m not so sure of that, my own self.
Why do you think that?
Offer to trade Maine for Alberta
And we’ll throw in Rhode Island for free................
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