Vorgeschlagene Frage zum Trennungsreferendum in Alberta angenommen
Vorgeschlagene Frage zum Trennungsreferendum in Alberta angenommen
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This is already making the Alberta NDP go up in the polls.
it would be nice if the conservative movement and the western business class had it in them to apply more social sanction to playing around with this treachery
Quebecer here. It’s customary to make your referendum question bafflingly complex, did anyone let the Albertans know?
Now watch as the campaign is surprisingly well-funded, and still loses by a mile, and the narrative that follows is about the “suppressed minority” of Free Albertans.
Danielle Smith is acting exactly like a person whose primary goal is to break Confederation.
Lowercase state. Could they be more vague? That’s a lot of system rigging to become a whatchamacallit
Is this the guy with the hat on video saying word out of Mar-a-logo is the real option is „Territory“? No offence to BC but this I’m not interrupting
Latest school testing results from Alberta show a steep decline; the Province is regressing in every possible way.
Didn’t the exact oppose movement just have their own question approved and even far surpassed the required threshold?
How many voters do we think are going to assume ‘become an independent state’ means they’re voting to join the USA?
You know, for how braindead this push is I do think the opposition to this clownery have done a poor job of articulating why it’s such a terrible idea from a „sovereignty“ perspective.
Here’s what Alberta „gets“ for being part of Canada:
-Control half the country’s politics despite being ~15% of the population, instead of being under 2% of the US population and being as politically relevant as Alabama.
-Effectively have a veto over the Canadian constitution *as a province*, regardless of what federal politicians think or want. Would be effectively irrelevant over US constitutional matters.
-Keep a far higher (or infinitely higher vs no-income tax states) share of income taxes in-province instead of ferrying up to 27% to the feds
-Gets to bicker with the feds over equalization payments, instead of watching federal revenue pork barreled into swing states or sent to subsidize poor Red states
-Has zero leverage negotiating with the US if they leave Canada, and have to accept whatever terms their administration set forth (i.e. could end up like Puerto Rico or be forced into unfavorable resource arrangements).
-Will lose whatever „rights“ associated with being Canadian, like getting block funding for universal healthcare or having access to CMHC-backed mortgages. Instead, patchwork of highly inefficient programs that are more expensive, are not close to being universal and can be taken away by the US feds at any time (who will keep their revenue from Alberta either way).
Beyond being an obvious psyop pandering to the ideologically obtuse, these people need to be clobbered on how „un-Albertan“ separation would actually be.