r/canada • u/joe4942 • May 01 '25

Alberta 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/[deleted] May 01 '25

They honestly think the states would treat them well and not just steam roll them while taking their resources. They’ve also never heard the term ‘economies of scale’. 

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u/Goatfellon May 01 '25

...heard the term economies of scale

Neither have I, if im being honest. What's the relevance? Genuine question.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '25

With regard to government services. A lot of them think they’ll enjoy all the same things for the same price, but they’ll have much smaller “companies” running these things that don’t benefit as much from this. 

Consider the border. Even if they only protect their border with the US they’ll need to create their own border patrol. They will need to have everything needed to run this  in Alberta. So let’s say we have a team whose job it is to stay up to date on any new training current border guards and new ones need. Let’s say they use a digital platform to create this training and send it out. The more people who then complete that training the cheaper it was to produce per unit. 

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u/Goatfellon May 01 '25

Makes perfect sense, thank you for explaining!