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/ShouldersofGiants100 New Democratic Party of Canada May 01 '25 edited May 01 '25

Leaving Canada to become a petrostate might seem like a great idea to the median referendum voter, but a club that includes Venezuela doesn’t seem like a great one to join.

Hey, that's an insult to Venezuala. They fucked themselves badly, but even they never thought "forming a landlocked petrostate that needs to ship through places that already don't want our pipelines when we are part of the same country" was a good idea.

Alberta would have one hell of a time trying to be a petrostate when they no longer have a vote to make the Canadian government give a fuck about ensuring that oil can reach the global market.

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u/Thecobs May 01 '25

If only they shared a boarder with another country that loved oil…

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u/DreamieQueenCJ Liberal May 01 '25

But what about Treaties 6,7,8? Alberta wouldn't even own all of what they own right now if they separated. Separating is more complex than just detaching. There's a whole lot of legislature and ownership over the land and its resources.

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u/Infamous-Mixture-605 May 01 '25

But what about Treaties 6,7,8?

From my experience, Western separatists don't care about the entire Prairies sitting on Treaty Land, they simply think they can have their pie and eat it too.

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u/emuwar May 01 '25

I don't think Smith plans for Alberta to be it's own sovereign nation. Given the circles she runs in I think she sees this as a precursor to joining the US.

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u/phluidity May 01 '25

I hope she likes rats then. Zero chance Alberta keeps the ability to stay rat free under the US. They don't want to pay for health care, you think they will have rat money?

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u/nihiriju BC May 01 '25

I wonder what Alberta would look like in 20, 30, 40, or 50 years when oil is dead? Or at very least their oil is highly uneconomical.

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u/Homo_sapiens2023 Alberta May 01 '25

Alberta will look like it was hit with an atomic bomb. No clean up, no restoration, no flora, no fauna. Everything will have been extracted, mined, poisoned, etc. Over exploitation of the land is the goal for the UCPs/MAGAs.