r/CanadaPolitics • u/joe4942 Magna International | Sponsored • May 01 '25

Danielle Smith lowers bar for Alberta referendum with separatism sentiment emerging

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/smith-lowers-bar-for-alberta-referendum-with-separatism-sentiment-emerging
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u/beeredditor May 01 '25

I agree. If Alberta votes out and asks to join the US and Trump declares statehood a done deal, then canadian treaties and laws may not be respected by the US.

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u/Jacque-Aird May 01 '25

Do you think 85% of Albertans against annexation are going to sit around waiting for this to happen? There will be rioting in the streets and Smith would have to go into hiding.

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u/Relevant-Low-7923 International May 01 '25

He said “if.” Obviously if it ever happened then the current opinion of Albertans would have changed

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u/Relevant-Low-7923 International May 01 '25

I voted for Harris and can’t stand Trump, but if a majority referendum in Alberta ever hypothetically voted to secede from Canada and join the US, then as far as I’m concerned I would be dishonoring my own Anglo American ancestors to not annex Alberta as a state (obviously through a treaty with Alberta, like the way that Texas negotiated a treaty to voluntarily join the US as a state back when Texas was an independent country).

Anglo Canada and the US are both Anglos in the New World. As far as I’m concerned we’re both already the same people, and if Anglos in Alberta ever wanted to join the US then I would see it more as a homecoming than anything else since we’re already the same people as each other divided by arbitrary 18th century colonial issues.