Comment by jbm
4 days ago
That might be the rhetoric, but separation means joining the US. The experience of landlocked country would be one of getting taken advantage of by every country around it.
There is a good 20% of people in Alberta who would vote for separation today. Take a close look, they aren't voting to be an independent country surrounded by a hostile country around it and a superpower that hijacks oil tankers to the south.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/red-deer-alberta-ind...
It is a stupid idea because the level of changes that would have to happen to everything would be much, much more than people realize. But Brexit has shown us that people will vote for stupid things if they are sold by trusted-but-dishonest actors
The stated objective of the Alberta Prosperity Project is for Alberta to be a sovereign nation. They're not looking to trade Ottawa for Washington.
Of course it is a loony idea, but that is what they're pushing.
you can listen to their purveyors on various podcasts and the like.
the are still actively pushing to try to get the US onboard at the same time.
you can also look to crimea as an example, independence and annexed by russia happened within a day or two
The question the group will ask is: "Do you agree that the province of Alberta should cease to be a part of Canada to become an independent state?"
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-referendum-q...
meh, they love white grievance politics so they'd love to be a vassal state of maga.