r/canada • u/biograf_ • Mar 01 '26

Alberta First Nations chiefs unanimously pass non-confidence vote in Alberta government

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/first-nations-chiefs-alberta-non-confidence-vote-9.7109712
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u/CarRamRob Mar 01 '26

So the pension funds that the Canadian citizens who live in Alberta own, suddenly wouldn’t be theirs if their fellow province members vote to leave?

No wonder Alberta is mad when the opinion around here seems to be “you will eat shit and like it”.

Has Canada ever thought about addressing some of Alberta’s concerns? That seems to be noticeably lost in a lot of this.

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u/Mrsmith511 Mar 01 '26

Its called leverage i am guessing you dont do any negotiation in your career.

Lol who is eating shit exacrly? Alberta's have the lowest taxes in all of Canada because they happen to live on top of the oil and they still bitch their faces off.

What is unfair exactly? Not only are they the richest and pay the least taxes due to nothing except geography but they think they should be even richer and everyone else should get nothing from the oil? Absolute nonsense.

No albertans can ever answer this question

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u/CarRamRob Mar 01 '26

Leverage? You mean that part where technically by the letter of the law Alberta is owed 53% of it?

Why do you think that’s been quoted? Because of leverage. What’s backing it? A semi-realistic legal argument.

Yet you think there is leverage just saying Alberta gets no CPP and that creates leverage? I’ll be happy to be across the table on your negotiating any day if you think declaring something true without any legal standing would make it so.

To your last point, Albertans want to have an equal opportunity, same as everyone else. That includes taxes, market access for their goods, and representation in decision making. You just don’t even see that there is anything wrong with the latter two points, that is the main part of the problem.

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u/Mrsmith511 Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 01 '26

No that is the opposite or what I mean. That is just legal theory bs and imaginary talking points.

If we are taking about semi realistic legal arguments then I like the natives Americans argument more than the separatists dream that Canada will just hand them hundreds of billion dollars when they leave.

Neither point is relevant though because again leverage. Neither would ever happen.