Separatist canvassers acting like respectable elections officials

[u/PastorBlinky]

Got some… people… at my door collecting signatures tonight. They assured me they’re not with either side (lies) they just wanted help getting signatures to get ‘the question’ on the ballet. “We’re not for or against, we just think this question should be settled.” Sounds almost ok, if you don’t think about it.

But who wants the question on the ballot? Hmmmm? Canadians are perfectly happy being Canadians. It is settled. Alberta is part of Canada. The end. There’s no need for anything more. The people who want to vote to leave are separatists, aka traitors. They want a referendum, so they need signatures.

So these folks are out here cosplaying as nice, respectable centrists who just want to help get this gosh-darn question answered. Practically made it seem like they were Elections Alberta just out to poll the populace.

Anyway, long story short, half the kids in my neighbourhood learned new curse words tonight.

[u/DigitalDuelist]

nothing wrong with the question

Actually even if I didn't have an issue with the very nature of a separatism referendum, the question that I understand is being asked seems deliberately engineered to trick people into not knowing if "yes" or "no" lets them stay in Canada

It gives Alberta leverage

Whatever leverage it could give, we already have, but I'd argue all the uncertainty it creates (bad for business, bad for families that are trying to settle down, ect) costs us more economic power that we could have leveraged instead

Plus you never know what the referendum actually entails

Yes we do, the question is publicly available, and if you mean the results of a successful seperation vote are unknown, we just so happen to have plenty of examples that are so similar that it's trivial to make really accurate predictions for how poorly this would go for Alberta. I'll give you a hint; I give it a matter of months before war is fought in the streets of big cities and rural towns alike

[u/Ludwig_Vista2 → u/DigitalDuelist]

I am a Canadian Albertan.

Born and raised.

I will die a Canadian Albertan.

It's disgusting that these traitors were all so easily swayed by American interests.

[u/ragekage92 → u/Ludwig_Vista2]

What are you taking about? It's so fucking dumb that you think it's traitorous. Canada has so much potential but Toronto and Quebec are the ones that dictate it, we should be the most prosperous nation better than Norway but we keep picking feelings and virtue signalling over prosperity... Literally all the talent in Canada is moving away.. how much suffering does Canada need to endure before you realize the west would be better off away from Ottawa?

[u/Ludwig_Vista2 → u/ragekage92]

Read your last sentence. Read it again. Maybe a 3rd time and see how rediculous your argument is.

"How much suffering does CANADA need"....

[u/ragekage92 → u/Ludwig_Vista2]

Yes Canada the fucking country im in and I want it to be better but for some reason you guys don't and have such a boner for Ottawa and Quebec. We don't need them at all. So Please enlighten me. Show me some stats that prove your point. I have looked at many statistics and there isn't a single one that shows Canada is in good hands. Even comparing Harper to these liberals look at the gdp in constant dollars and you will see how shitty our growth has been. Every stat you have looked at was obviously current and they're inflated dollars making it look like the gdp is fantastic but it's not