Comment by k12sosse
4 hours ago
Rumours of an Albertan independence have been greatly exaggerated. There's astroturfed big oil preying on grade 10 dropouts on Facebook, And the rest is American CIA bullshit like they've been doing down south for decades.
Speculation (watching this from the other side of the planet): Danielle Smith doesn’t actually want an independent Alberta; she wants the threat of one to use to extract concessions from Ottawa
I think ideal outcome for her would be for independence to be narrowly defeated-that way she doesn’t have to deal with the headache of trying to actually implement independence, but the narrower the defeat the easier it is to use it to pressure Ottawa to come to the table