Danielle Smith promises Alberta separation referendum if signatures warrant
Danielle Smith promises Alberta separation referendum if signatures warrant | Globalnews.ca
We won’t won’t pursue a referendum on separation unless…?😳
Because what everyone wants right now is to return to the polls….
Gods I'm so sick of these clowns acting as people with jobs when what they really do is shout nonsense and waste taxpayer's money.
If signatures warrant? That’s hilarious. She’d do it if it got less than 1% of the population to sign.
American here. If you're an Albertan, and you really think you'll get a better deal down here, then I have a bridge to sell you, and a ticket to CECOT.
Elbows up, my friends and neighbors to the north. The stupidity is being exported.
What a great distraction from her ongoing scandals.
Anyone in Alberta who thinks separating will help Alberta is an idiot. If you join the US, you'll be Puerto Rico Norte, exploited for resources and excluded from the Union. If you think Trump will honor any deal he makes I don't even know what to say to you.
If you go it alone you'll be a landlocked nation of 4 million, with absolutely no leverage against the two big economies surrounding you.
Hell, even if they do this referendum and it fails, you've lost your negotiating leverage with Canada because we'll all see how it's an empty threat.
Quebec is clear eyed enough to see now is not the time to talk about separation.
While as stupid as separation is when the biggest Albertan customer is already gouging the province in oil prices, I really think it's the scandals we should really be concentrating on.
This is all just a distraction, and Albertans need to call for a public inquiry on all the corruption allegations, the healthcare scandal, her bribery charges, etc. A ten second search and the number of scandals and allegations regarding this person is staggering and makes Doug Ford look like he's just stealing cookies from the public in comparison.
I'm of the opinion, that if the wrong actions are taken, we're in the opening stage of what is essentially another Crimean Crisis.
and the Crimean Crisis directley led to full scale war less than 10 years later
hé, I'm in Québec, I'd need a nice ride in buses with thousands of others Canadians to tell Alberta we love them!
There seems to be a degree of confidence here that they wouldn't choose to leave. Don't be so sure. BC and Saskatchewan may vary a bit politically, but Alberta (with the exception of the two urban centres) has pretty much solidly been in the camp of "fuck the rest of the country, we got ours" for as far back as I can remember... and I'm 46.
They can't actually leave. The lands are indigenous and have not been ceded to the province or the crown. There are treaties allowing the crown to use them (in this case, as the province of Alberta), but basically it's as though I've got a tenant in a bedroom saying he's going to keep the bedroom, stop paying rent, and he owns it now.
https://newsletter.doomberg.com/p/the-week-that-was
This has a nice prediction on Canada 1/3 down the page, where they will use this crisis to push an energy corridor east.
Obviously a 25% tariff on steel and manufacturing in Canada is a death knell for the east, and only a 10% tariff on oil puts Alberta in a favorable position. Which pit provinces against one another, ensuring Carney would win, and would be favorable to push a pipeline for LNG. To ultimately defund Russia.
Carney is in a meeting right now and they are praising each other like crazy. Its quite absurd actually given how Trudeau was treated.
Albertans should use the lowered threshold to get referendums to get a referendum on exiling Danielle Smith.
Or at least demanding she resign. I bet there's more support for that than for separation. You should all do it.
Nenshi is waiting in the wings for that election.
We should set her on an ice flow and see how climate change treats it/her
We're working on it.