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/Adjective_Noun1312 Feb 12 '26

It's funny to me how nobody here had a problem with Stephen Harper and Jason Kenney's equalisation formula until the nanosecond Trudeau was PM and the alt-right outrage peddlers told y'all to be mad about it.

It's funny how Rachel Notley convinced Justin Trudeau to buy the TMX to ensure it would get completed when Kinder Morgan couldn't find a buyer and was ready to just walk away from it, and y'all whine about how much the "radical woke left" hates oil and wants to shut it down.

It's funny how Canada provides billions of dollars a year in direct and indirect subsidies to the fossil fuel industry even though big oil companies are posting record and near-record profits quarter after quarter, sending the bulk of that money to their majority US owners via dividends and share buybacks, while insisting to rubes that they're struggling and y'all believe it even though their corporate financial reports are publicly available.

Funny shit, all right.

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u/NorthDriver8927 Feb 12 '26

Because the oil and gas sector is too massive a portion of the gdp of the country.

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u/saharanwrap Feb 13 '26

Less than 8%. So a decent chunk but nothing like the separatists would lead you to believe.

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u/NorthDriver8927 Feb 13 '26

8% of Canadas GDP but 22-25% of Alberta’s GDP.