Separatisten aus Alberta reichen eine neue Petition ein, da die MLAs 3 Millionen US-Dollar für die Vorbereitung des Referendums bewilligen
Alberta separatists file new petition as MLAs approve $3M for referendum preparations
Separatisten aus Alberta reichen eine neue Petition ein, da die MLAs 3 Millionen US-Dollar für die Vorbereitung des Referendums bewilligen
Alberta separatists file new petition as MLAs approve $3M for referendum preparations
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This puts Smith & the UCP in a weird/self-created position where they risk alienating their centrist urban voters & rural separatist voters simultaneously. We have Guthrie, Sinclair & the Alberta Party potentially resurrecting the Progressive Conservatives while the people in the UCP’s base that are genuine separatists, or jus further right than Smith are now calling her a sellout for making deal with Ottawa etc. (which might worsen if she’s forced to actually try and reign in those people after enabling them for so long etc.)
The one upside with the separatism movements is that, if they ever prove sucessful, they would force us to come back to the drawing table in drafting a new constitution, one which may put the toothpaste back into the bottle in a way that would never happen otherwise. Maybe it would leave the remaining Canada stronger.
Do they even know what they want to separate from?
Pretty much all of Alberta is covered by Treaty Lands with CANADA. If people in Alberta wants to separate from Canada, they would lose all this land (because Indigenous People never agreed to lend it to another country).
The better solution would be for them to pack and move South of the border, since they do not seem to care that much about Canada’s sovereignty.
Traditionally people who had a problem with the government left the land and moved on. British loyalists left America for Canada, Puritans left England for the New World, even today Mennonites can be found setting up in South America.