Alberta Premier Danielle Smith confirmed the her plan to invoke the Sovereignty Act on Your Province Your Premier on Saturday.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith confirmed the her plan to invoke the Sovereignty Act on Your Province Your Premier on Saturday.
Alberta is about to create a federal constitutional challenge, and find out that they are, despite the conservatives’ collective pipe dream, part of Canada.
I can already hear the chorus of “this is a gross overreach of federal power” and “Trudeau is a dictator” whines coming from the usual culprits. And the base gets riled up even further…
It’s starting to become ever more tempting to, at some point, actually give them that freedom they so desperately want and defederate Alberta from Canada. I give them about as long as California was actually independent for before they come begging to be let back in, after they come to the realization that they are a land-locked nation that depends on its neighbors and existing trade relationships and agreements to sell any of their precious oil to the world.
Be careful what you wish for wild roses, you just might get it.
separation would require a referendum, which would have 0% chance of passing. nobody wants this, beside some whackos. this is all posturing by the UCP, both to their base and to the federal government.
I know seperation is not popular enough to actually make it happen, but what I don;t understand is why this point gets brought up so much by the UCP if it isn’t popular enough to actually happen. If a politician/party is constantly harping about something I don’t actually support, why would I vote for them? It makes no sense.
The only reason it “requires” a referendum is because Quebec went for that option in 1980, there’s nothing anywhere setting the separation process in stone, so technically a referendum isn’t necessary.
I think they would instead beg for the US to let them join the Union if a Republican was in power at the time.
What does it take to admit a new state? Please tell me this couldn’t happen, I don’t want to be American.
Congress vote
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admission_to_the_Union
Really, that’s it? Damn. I bet we’d be a blue state, though, so maybe that’s a disincentive for that particular weird post-2016 thing.
Your voting record over the last century says otherwise.
You whippersnappers and not understanding the social credit party!! Why, in my day…
Sure, we’re a conservative province in Canada, but in the US we’d still be to the left. We, overall, like having free healthcare and access to abortion. I swear the rest of Canada thinks we’re illiterate sometimes. Bro, I saw what happened in Ontario, get off your high horse.
Alberta has the record for the longest time with the same party in power, it was a conservative party from 1971 to 2015 and they beat the previous record that they previously held that was another conservative party from 1935 to 1971.
Alberta’s NDP is conservative compared to the NDP everywhere else!
Alberta and America have both changed a lot in the past decades. The rural areas would probably still be (light?) red, but most of the population is in Calgary and Edmonton, and they’re not going to go for no-joke Republicans that think the election was faked by a global cabal of pedophiles.
The Alberta NDP is a bit like the Liberals in other places, I’d say.
I’d argue that SoCred wasn’t conservative. It was anti-capitalist, for one thing; although it wasn’t really socialist either, but kind of it’s own thing.
Who’s the
prime ministerpremier of Alberta? What % of the total vote did her party get?I rest my case.
We don’t have a prime minister. Our premier won by just 1300 (well-placed, it’d be more if they were outside of Calgary) votes in a province of 4 million. I rest my case.
PRIME MINISTER OF ALBERTA?? lol…
Clearly a Danielle Smith supporter because you don’t know anything and wouldn’t dare let your lack of knowledge stop you from talking out your ass.
I’m shocked at how stupid your comment is.