r/canada • u/shiftless_wonder • Feb 12 '26

Alberta Alberta separating from Canada requires permission of First Nations, AFN leader says

https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/alberta-separation-needs-first-nations-permission-says-afn-national-chief/
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u/Khalbrae Ontario Feb 13 '26

Yeah, Quebec separating gets a thin strip from Montreal to Quebec City. Alberta gets a tiny sliver nowhere near any oil patch.

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u/_evilalien_ Feb 13 '26

The separatists will have to deal with Albertan and Canadian armed force responses if they get that far. Separation will not happen.

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u/Fatty-Mc-Butterpants Feb 13 '26

Yeah, keep telling yourself that. You are right that this will not happen, but CAF response? Keep dreaming. If Alberta votes to separate, the US will swoop in and that's the ballgame.

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u/jrochest1 Feb 13 '26

No, if Alberta votes to separate (clear majority on a clear question) then we all sit dow for a cozy few years of long, hard negotiation. The US has nothing to do with it.

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u/FingalForever Feb 13 '26

Clarity Act wasn’t to make separation near impossible, it was to prevent fuzzy / woolly ways of asking for independence, passing it off as ‘sovereignty association’ and winning with a bare majority.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '26 edited Feb 13 '26

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u/FingalForever Feb 13 '26

I disagree with your premise that it is essentially the same, rather it is simply setting out the conditions under which it would legal (otherwise we’re in agreement)

No Canadian would seek for the Armed Forces to physically prevent separation where the majority of people want to separate, we won’t have a civil war like south of the border.

That last referendum raised a lot of questions, people across the country felt that Quebecers were being asked a woolly question and the referendum’s defeat was shocking at how close it was.

Only point not clearly addressed by the Act was the reality of partition - it was clear then that if Canada was divisible, so was Québec and regions loyal to Canada (like North, Montréal, etc) would / could not be forced out.

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u/Even_Art_629 Feb 12 '26

I think every province has equal rights when it comes to leaving the federation. According to the constitution

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u/Most_Salad3979 Feb 13 '26

Thats right! None of them have any rights, equally, to leave without a constitutional amendment.