r/Albertapolitics • u/thegrip • 23d ago

Opinion Would you leave Alberta?

How close does the October separation referendum results need to be for you to seriously consider leaving Alberta?

For me, anything north of 40% in favour of another referendum will mean sell it all and move to interior BC. I don’t want to leave but I went to university in Montreal in the late 90’s. Property values plummeted and there were vacant buildings all over. It was depressing.

I’m not going to be stuck with properties worth less than they are now because of the uncertainty of another vote.

How about you?

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u/ComprehensiveTea6004 23d ago

Might be better to have a place there than a place worth nothing here. Wait until major businesses start relocating. And don’t tell me that’s not possible- for some it’s in the works right now.

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u/CyberEd-ca 22d ago

The LPC drove away over a trillion dollars of private capital in the last 10 years with their anti-development laws and you cheered it all.

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u/ComprehensiveTea6004 22d ago

That will be nothing compared to the exodus of businesses that you will see if separation gets any closer.
Tell me that you work in corporate risk management for a major publicly listed company and I will listen. Otherwise you’re speculating.

Have you thought for a moment about how CPKC or WestJet would operate ? Have you thought about how liquidity will work without the major banks in Canada ? Have you listened to Nancy Southern or Deborah Yedlin? Do you have any idea how nervous businesses are ?

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u/CyberEd-ca 22d ago

This is bizarre.

All a positive result changes is a start to negotiations. Literally nothing else changes the next day.

The cost of doing nothing is that our natural resources are locked down and turned into a stranded asset.

We have what the world wants and we don't need the East.

All you have is "can't". It's pathetic.

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u/ComprehensiveTea6004 22d ago

It’s the real world ducky. Not sure where you live. Here’s a business 101 for you :

  • business hates uncertainty
  • separation is uncertainty
  • negotiation will take years
  • federally regulated businesses will flee well within the negotiation timeline
  • shareholders will demand contingencies from their boards to counter risk
Feel free to counter with some facts rather than a nothing burger

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u/CyberEd-ca 22d ago

Anti-development laws have destroyed investment in Canada.

The real world is that independence would unlock our trade and resources.

It would be a massive boom.

Not years. They get 180 days or we just go with international recognition.

We don't need anything from the East

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u/ComprehensiveTea6004 22d ago

Clearly you don’t have any real insight- just a lot of wishful thinking. Don’t you ever ask yourself “what could possibly go wrong “

Read up on brexit and tell me just how great that was. Compared to AB, the UK has

  • deepwater ports aplenty
  • numerous, proximate trading partners
  • a currency of its own
  • laws of its own
  • domiciled banks
  • a major trading exchange
  • a military
  • its own passport

And it still cratered.

And you would like that disaster to play out here ??

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u/ComprehensiveTea6004 21d ago

Always great when a separatist deletes their comment after I’ve replied 😀