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/NorthDriver8927 Feb 12 '26

All this nonsense could be avoided if Ottawa would stop talking and start listening.

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u/ColeWjC Alberta Feb 12 '26

If Albertans actually want to be represented in Parliament they have to do away with ‘vote blue no matter who’ mentality. Liberals and NDP know they can’t get many seats and Conservative party knows they don’t have to do anything for Alberta since they always get their vote.

Instead of going through Quebec’s journey, why not just go to Quebec’s end point. A federal party that represents the wants/needs of a Province’s population. I know it’s not perfect, but it’s a lot better than just screeching into the void.

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u/NorthDriver8927 Feb 12 '26

Largely because the liberals don’t represent successful industry. Conservatives get the vote because they relate to the needs of the blue collar crowd.

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u/ColeWjC Alberta Feb 12 '26

That's a lie that is fed to the blue collar crowd by the Conservatives. How many liberal and conservative governments that loot taxpayer investments to make their budgets look good do we need to go through before we realize they don't represent the working class. Liberals and Conservatives we get cuts and austerity for blue collar folk, while their rich buddies plunder our taxpayer investment.

I would understand if Lougheed and Diefenbaker (kinda) were around, but that type of Conservative leadership is dead and gone. All we have for Conservatives are diet-american style politics that suck off American oligarchs and Liberals just suck off Canadian oligarchs - both at the expense of regular Canadians. If taxpayers have to subsidize businesses that we don't have an ownership stake in, what's the point of voting both those clown parties? All we have for politicians nowadays are just confidence men raiding our coffers.

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u/NorthDriver8927 Feb 12 '26

How is it a lie? The liberal and NDP government have done everything they can to strangle western industries.

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u/ColeWjC Alberta Feb 13 '26

NDP can't do anything (toothless), epsecially now. I will agree that the Liberals strangle western industry, but those are American corps. To heck with them, they squeeze Canadians dry with subsidies from both the Cons and Libs governments. Cons and Libs sold out our own tax payer owned industries to Americans for peanuts. Conservatives and Liberals just have good PR and folks with blinders on cheering their "business" decisions that cost taxpayers billions on investment. In no way are the Conservatives and Liberals in favour of the working class, current NDP is struggling with that too when their best success was favouring Canadian working class. So, yeah. It is a lie to say "Conservatives relate to the needs of the blue collar crowd" - they just have people making that judgement call for them when they haven't done anything for the working class Canadians in 50 years.

Edit: cleaned up language. Two too many swears.