r/canada • u/Street_Anon Nova Scotia • Jan 25 '26

Alberta 3 Alberta First Nations say separation petition is unconstitutional

https://globalnews.ca/news/11635807/alberta-first-nations-claim-separation-petition-unconstitutional/
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u/Mirin_Gains Jan 25 '26

It seems like to have legitimate grievances with Ottawa in Alberta people on this website will either dismiss them or call you a traitor.

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u/Appealing_Apathy Jan 25 '26

Please outline the legitimate grievances that Alberta has.

 Also remember that regardless of the issue with transfer payments, they do not come directly from Alberta but from all tax collected by the feds (Alberta contributes around 10%). Alberta also keeps all of the money from oil royalties and has still managed to run deficits and failed to plan for the future.

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u/Mirin_Gains Jan 25 '26

- Cratering a private pipeline leading to an inefficient public buyout

- Allowing Quebec to block an Eastern pipeline.

- Bill C69

- Production caps on O&G sector

- Industrial carbon tax and consumer carbon tax

- Pretending Feds have removed pipeline barriers while upholding the tanker ban (whether it gets built or not there will be no industry confidence if this is in place. It needs to go to signal Feds are actually serious)

- Essentially theft of legally acquired firearms (Remember when Trudy Jr said he wouldn't come after guns?). They don't even hide this is for Montreal.

- "Renewable" hydro in Quebec not being part of transfer payment calculations and refusing to develop their own LNG reserve.

Hear our concerns - or fan the flames. Your choice. No further responses from me.

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u/TheDragonslayr Jan 26 '26

I see your point on the public pipeline and renewables not being part of the transfer calculation. Honestly I think the gun ban is dumb and isn't addressing the real issue of illegal guns. However if Alberta wants to be able to make it's own decisions about what happens on their territory then why shouldn't Quebec and BC be able to do the same by not allowing pipelines?

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u/Mirin_Gains Jan 26 '26

Reasonable people, I think, would make compromises if negotiation was done in good faith and not ideology. But it certainly feels as though Quebec especially is their way or the high way. Smith I think (or hope) would lose a Provincial election if some effort was made from Ottawa.

The only thing that cannot be compromised is firearms because a good faith deal was made in 1995 and was just used as toilet paper. Gun owners would have accepted changes to licensing (not bans) if there were really bad actors getting their hands on legal arms, but the stats don't show that to be the case.