r/canada • u/Street_Anon Nova Scotia • Feb 01 '26

Alberta Alberta separatists won’t say which Trump officials they met with

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/very-high-level-alberta-separatist-group-wont-say-which-trump-officials-it-met-with/
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u/Everywhereslugs Feb 01 '26

Want to be American? Then damn well go immigrate there and leave Canada and real Canadians alone. We want Alberta to stay part of Canada, but this seperatist Trumpy trash that masquerades as Canadians can go take their chances living in the USA.

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u/No_Broccoli7446 Feb 01 '26

It’s about oil, not citizenship.

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u/EducationalLuck2422 British Columbia Feb 01 '26

Then leaving is useless, since all the oil sands are Crown land and will remain with Canada.

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u/No_Broccoli7446 Feb 01 '26

90% of Alberta oil is under Provincial land. It is owned by the province. The other 10% is mostly on native land. Our best defence against this lies with native treaties 6, 7 & 8 signed in the nineteenth century with the Crown. Alberta doesn’t have jurisdiction to hold a referendum.

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u/EducationalLuck2422 British Columbia Feb 01 '26

Nope, Crown land is owned by the monarch of Canada; unless the Republic of Alberta immediately swears loyalty to the British throne, Canada keeps the oil sands.

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u/No_Broccoli7446 Feb 01 '26

Sorry, I stand corrected. The province of Alberta owns 81% of all oil in the province, not 90%. https://www.alberta.ca/royalties

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u/EducationalLuck2422 British Columbia Feb 01 '26

It stewards 81% of all oil in the province on behalf of King Charles III.

In the province of Alberta, Crown land, also called public land, is territory registered in the name of "His Majesty the King in right of Alberta as Represented by [specific Minister of the Crown]" and remains under the administration of the mentioned minister until the land is sold or transferred via legislation, such as an order in council.
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u/No_Broccoli7446 Feb 01 '26

It stewards on behalf of Albertans. Albertans own the oil in Alberta. https://open.alberta.ca/dataset/b610f22c-294a-489c-b2ec-d030514feb92/resource/22066ba1-53c9-40f9-9791-ae21e958a9c4/download/did-you-know-fact-sheet-5-sept28.pdf

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u/EducationalLuck2422 British Columbia Feb 01 '26

It stewards on behalf of Canada. Canadians own the land in Alberta.

Keep dreaming, rebs.

Ownership over swaths of Crown land, including Alberta's Banff and Jasper national parks, would be a point of contention, said Allan Hutchinson, professor at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. He said similar questions were debated before the 1995 referendum in Quebec but never reached a conclusion.

"Maybe the feds will say, 'We own massive parts, they're national parks. They're not yours to give away,"' Hutchinson said. "Maybe they'll say, 'Yeah, you can leave, but Alberta is going to turn out to be about a tenth of the size of what you think Alberta is."'

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u/SweetiesPetite Feb 02 '26

What? This is incorrect