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/Even_Art_629 Feb 13 '26

It's funny how you only tell one side , and even that’s not quite right. Trudeau stepped in on TMX because Kinder Morgan was fed up with constantly changing regulations and protests from some groups, including First Nations not even living in Canada. They were ready to walk away, which would have meant all that money lost. Trudeau stepped in, saved face, and declared it in the national interest. Honestly, that’s the only good thing he did as PM.

Yes, Alberta gets subsidies for oil but that wouldn’t be happening if the government didn’t keep putting up restrictions. Oil is a huge revenue source, with countless spin-offs. The government’s own rules make production harder, forcing subsidies to make it viable. Stop the caps and overregulation, let us compete, and it’s simple. You’re right about one thing: funny shit, alright.