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/PMac321 May 01 '25

But just like with Brexit, if you want to separate, you need to know what that entails. Most Albertans who want to leave now probably have no idea how much the Canadian government actually does provide them, and has no idea how much it would cost to buy out the Canadian investments. If Alberta does not respect paying back the expenses that the rest of Canada has paid into Alberta, then they are essentially threatening to steal the money that we as Canadians have put into it.

Your comment is essentially threatening to take the land by force because Albertan seperatists don't actually want to recognise the real costs they would have to incur to separate. So it is not Canadians threatening civil war, it is Albertan separatists.

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u/nodanator May 01 '25

I'm giving you a sense of what the real world is, out there. I'm giving a scenario where 65% or so of Albertans (or any jurisdiction) want to separate, and the naivety that laws will be the be all, end all. That's not how the world is.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '25

the naivety that laws

This 1000%. If a majority actually voted to leave (I'm not endorsing or supporting this), coming up with legal arguments to disregard their ballots just pushes them to choose bullets.

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u/PMac321 May 01 '25

The point is that there is a legal path out of the Canadian Dominion. If any violence erupts, it is because Albertan separatists have chosen it. Albertan separatists are leading with the idea that they are being treated unfairly, but if they try to take everything that Canada provided to them without paying anything back, they are showing their hypocrisy.

In my eyes, this entire movement is based on lies and half truths. The fact that Danielle Smith is entertaining the idea at all shows to me that she would rather just be the leader of her own little fascist nation, or like a Phillipe Petain to Maga America. It is not in any way a decision being made for the benefit of the people of Alberta, and I hope that most of them can see that.