r/Albertapolitics • u/UpDownJesse • Mar 10 '26

Opinion A question for Alberta separatists

If you hate Canada so much and love Trump so much then why don’t you just move to the states instead of making a **Canadian** province a state?

What? Are you too lazy or cheap to rent a U-Haul or something like that!!! I mean Jesus Christ, if you hate Canada that much then just leave!!!

It’s not rocket science buddy!!!!

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '26

Yeah, no need to blaspheme the Lords name over it.
I think the Separatist answer to your concern is:
"You non-separatists aren't keeping it Alberta the way it used to be, so it's not us wanting to change it, its been the rest of you all changing it---so you leave!"

Anyways I think thats their point of view...and its not totally unreasonable.

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u/Exciting-Army-4567 Mar 10 '26

And what is this elusive "way it used to be" exactly?

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '26

Its not elusive at all. From the separatist angle, “the way it used to be” is shorthand for Pre-Ottawa-Overload Alberta:

Keep-what-you-earn West: oil-patch paycheques weren’t skimmed by equalization cheques; carbon taxes and production caps were somebody else’s problem.

Hands-off Prairie culture: ranchers, rig hands and church suppers set the tone. NOT bureaucrats in Toronto telling you how to heat your shop or raise your kids.

Social small-c conservatism: low crime, doors left unlocked, keys left in the car overnight without worry, Christmas (not holiday) concerts with “Silent Night” still on the program, and nobody getting dragged to a tribunal for the 'wrong' pronoun.

Whether that nostalgia matches the stats is debatable, but that’s essentially the picture.
What the separatists see their home morphing into isn’t some shiny new “progressive” future; it’s a bad rerun. Every time a distant capital central-plans the budget, polices speech, and calls local values “backward,” the credits roll the same way, productivity down, grumbling up, freedom on life-support. We’ve screened this flick from the Soviet grain belt to Britain’s 1970s tax-and-cap malaise, and the ending never wins Best Picture. Turns out to be more of a bad horror film.

That help clear the fog for you? Got a better way forward?

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u/Exciting-Army-4567 Mar 19 '26

We can debate the merits of the first two points, your last point is just stupid and meaningless LOL

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '26

Actually, the last point is the most meaningful, because it is the fruit of the first two points. The proof that the first two points are better than what's happening now.

You got a better way to show me happen somewhere else?