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    Drei Mythen von Alberta Separatismus

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    1. Individual_Bet_6025 on

      Alberta would be instantly broke and land locked , they’d have no choice but to sell themselves to America. 

      American corporations would pump and dump the oil and gas industry till it fizzled out and leave Alberta as prosperous as Detroit.   

    2. MTL_Dude666 on

      Just like separatism talks in Quebec made Toronto/Ontario stronger and Montreal/Quebec weaker,
      separatism talks in Alberta will make Toronto/Ontario even stronger and Calgary+Edmonton/Alberta weaker.

      If they hate the economic power of the East in Canada, separatists in Alberta should be careful of what they say & do.

    3. AnSionnachan on

      As was brought up in the Quebec seperatism debate, if a province can break away, there is no reason Canada needs to let it it do so with the current borders.

    4. mukmuk64 on

      Minor side thing is that BC is a very popular location for Albertans to have vacation homes and to retire. So much so that during a campaign stop Poilievre joked that the Okanagan was the best part of Alberta (maybe not a joke he should repeat now that he’s going to be running for office in Alberta…). BC has a foreign buyer and speculation and empty homes taxes. If Alberta was no longer part of Canada lol well that wouldn’t be a terribly good position to be in for an Albertan holder of Okanagan vacation real estate.

      I guess BC is the Spain to Alberta’s UK.

    5. ChimoEngr on

      > The idea that a sovereign Alberta would always have conservative government.

      I’m not sure that’s a myth. Alberta’s provincial governments have been firmly conservative for a couple generations or so. Even that one NDP blip was still a rather conservative version of the party.

      > The idea that a sovereign Alberta could force Canada to build pipelines to the coast.

      > The idea that a sovereign Alberta would have more money.

      These two are of course, total bunk.

      > The right is a right to transit, not transit infrastructure.

      So tanker trucks couldn’t be blocked, but new pipelines could. More or less what I expected.

      > This is based on the idea that Albertans pay more in federal taxes than the federal government spends in Alberta.

      There is truth to that, but it ignores the services Alberta benefits from, from people employed outside of the province. It also ignores that services don’t always scale with the population they’re serving, and it may take as many people to provide a service to Alberta, as it did to the country at large, or at least it may take more than Alberta’s share of the national population would suggest.

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