For my Canadian friends

[Shiftless2]

YUMA, ARIZONA — In a bold demonstration of rugged prairie independence, a group of Alberta separatists were reportedly spotted in a sunny RV camp in Yuma this week, collecting signatures for a referendum to leave Canada.

Nothing says “strong and free” quite like launching your sovereignty campaign from a lawn chair beside a luxury RV in a U.S. retirement enclave.

Photos circulating in a Facebook group charmingly titled “Liberals Must Go” show a lineup of snowbirds eager to sign the petition while wearing sandals, sipping iced beverages, and enjoying the fruits of a country they insist is broken beyond repair.

The irony is almost too efficient.

For decades, many of these same boomers built their wealth in Alberta’s oil and gas sector. The very industry that benefited from national infrastructure, federal programs, equalization frameworks, and access to Canadian and global markets. The same industry whose workers rely on Canadian pensions, healthcare, and financial systems. The same industry they claim Ottawa has been “robbing.”

Apparently robbed people can still afford diesel pushers, golf memberships, and six months of sunshine in Arizona.

Even more impressively, they are managing to ....

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[Shiftless2]

Alberta would start off $600 billion in debt, their financial plan hinges on one resource (oil), and they would be stuck with huge division in their new 'country' where loads of them wanted to remain part of Canada. Doesn't sound like a recipe for success to me

 

[sear]

"Alberta would start off $600 billion in debt, their financial plan hinges on one resource (oil), and they would be stuck with huge division in their new 'country' where loads of them wanted to remain part of Canada. Doesn't sound like a recipe for success to me" S2 #402

Sadly, tragically, horrendous political agendas through recent centuries of human history demonstrate some of the most atrocious political objectives have been pursued by those that seem to imagine themselves to be heroic champions of justice, etc.
Often not.

Exceptions include Poland's attempt to separate from the Soviets during the Cold War. History has demonstrated separating from the Soviets generally benefits the separatists.

Ottawa is not Moscow.

It's likely Alberta separatists perceive some slight from Ottawa their imagination perceives separation would not merely address, but improve.
Even if so, at what cost?

SURELY it seems far-fetched, BUT !!
Suppose a madman were elected president in the United States of America (unlikely), AND
suppose that madman advocated assimilating Canada into the United States (preposterous!).
In that scenario, how would Alberta provide for its own military defense, if divorced from Canada proper?

Think it through Albert. Sober up! You couldn't want a better federal alliance. If you have issues, address them. The appropriate medical protocol for a headache is not decapitation. Take a pill. Grow up.

 

[Shiftless2]

..... it seems far-fetched, BUT !!
Suppose a madman were elected president in the United States of America (unlikely), AND
suppose that madman advocated assimilating Canada into the United States (preposterous!).
In that scenario, how would Alberta provide for its own military defense, if divorced from Canada proper?

The separatists would have joined the US long before that ....

 

[sear]

"The separatists would have joined the US long before that ...." S2 #404

chumps

 

[Rigby5]

People confuse what they want with what is best.
Europe was best when it was under the rules of a republic with the large Holy Roman Empire.
It was such a diverse federation in central Europe, that it had to standardize over universal rights instead of just what anyone just wanted.
The Napoleonic wars broke that up into smaller countries that then were far more abusive.
WWI broke down Germany into even smaller countries that were more abusive, like Czechoslovakia and Poland.
Now even Czechoslovakia has broken down into Czech Republic and Slovakia, which are even more abusive.

We see it in why the UN is such a failure.
It is just a power grab based on what the Security Council wants, instead of the Rule of Law and Blind Justice of a constitutional republic.

Alberta should be reminded how dangerous it is to base government on what you want instead of rights and justice.