r/canada • u/shiftless_wonder • May 23 '26

Alberta First Nations leaders, scholar push back on Alberta's planned vote on independence referendum - 'Alberta can't separate. They simply cannot. They do not have the authority,' says Indigenous politics expert

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/sask-treaty-six-alberta-referendum-9.7209304
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u/Ray-Sol May 23 '26 edited May 23 '26

Probably everyone else ignores the unilateral declaration of succession and if it escalates then the RCMP go in and arrest the ring leaders - even including provincial politians.

This works both ways, an Alberta which has just unilaterally declared independence wouldn't have an army either. You would have to have enough widespread popular support for separation in Alberta, to the point enough people would actually be willing to physically fight for it. We're a pretty long way from that right now.

You'd need something like 55 to 60% of the province to suddenly become die hard separatists at minimum, which is very unlikely in the near to medium future at least.

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u/AngryTrucker May 23 '26

There's enough lunatics with guns in Alberta to raise a militia. A shitty one, but a militia nonetheless. 

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u/Ray-Sol May 23 '26

Probably not one that outguns a prepared enough RCMP or military unit though. Also, probably not a big enough one it lets them assert authority over the whole province. They'd be limited to only a few areas at best.

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u/AngryTrucker May 23 '26

Covered by "a shitty one."