Smith veranstaltet heute Abend Alberta nächstes Panel am nicht genannten Standort

Nothing says my idea is so popular, I have to basically do a 1st world reenactment of al Qaeda and do it from a hidden location.

In the event of a successful referendum, Alberta will not become independent – it’ll become a dependency of the United States, and not necessarily a full state at that.

Adding a state to the union is a complicated process unless the country is going to be ruled by executive order with no regard to the constitution (which seems more possible every day, but adding a state should be beyond even Trump’s power). To think Alberta will waltz into Congress with two senators and a bunch of Congressmen and a handful of electoral college votes is just stupid. Why Alberta would want to become Petroleum Puerto Rico is beyond me but that is the most likely scenario.

The premier knows this. There is no world where Alberta is independent from both Canada and the US. If they actually tried this, they would become the poorest, least functional district in North America. Again, they are well aware of this. And so I have to assume they are thinking about the most realistic alternative, absorption into the US.

Informally or not, she is putting out feelers with the US government to leave Canada. Chances are she has already held informal discussions with the Americans. I can’t believe it has never come up in all her visits and meetings with MAGA figures.

This makes it very different from either of the Quebec referendums, which we might not have liked, but never included the suggestion of joining a foreign country.

If Alberta goes, we will probably lose the country. So in reality, Smith is talking about selling out a province of Canada to a foreign power, and engineering the destruction of the nation she swore allegiance to.

There’s a word for that.

If we don’t take this seriously and start hitting back hard, it will probably happen, too. The collapse of American democracy happened because people didn’t take it seriously and the opposition couldn’t come up with a credible alternative.

The Trump administration has shown that it doesn’t matter how unpopular these policies are, these changes will happen if the centre can’t be bothered to fight back.