Alberta’s premier proposes referendum on separation from Canada

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1. The context here is that this is happening because the conservatives lost the federal election…again. They’re just sore losers

2. Submission statement: Premier Daniel Smith says she will hold a referendum next year on secession from Canada, assuming the petition gets the required signatures. This comes after her government lowered the signature bar to 177k. She said “we don’t want special treatment or handouts, we just want to be free to develop and export our resources”

3. Personally I think this is a significant threat. Never underestimate pissed off people. For it to get endorsed by the ruling party it has to get bad enough that they think this is needed. Remember no one expected brexit to succeed. And Alberta would be doing this under the Clarity Act using a clear constitutional process.

4. Wouldn’t it just be easier for her to move south to her whacky promised land?

5. Encourage people to actually learn about confederation, western separatist movements and the relationship between Alberta and Ottawa over the past 10 years before making ignorant comments here.

6. Yikes, this has Texas annexation/ Mexican American war written all over it.

7. FOREIGN AGENT

8. The title of the article is wrong. The first sentence in the article says she will hold it if the citizens do an initiative, as in, get 10% of voters to sign a petition. I can’t stand her, but there is more than enough stuff to point out instead of borderline putting words in her mouth.

   Wtf ABC news. 

9. Canada should allow Alberta to leave under one condition: it gets all of the rich blue states in the West Coast and Northeast as compensation.

   Alberta isn’t worth Hollywood, Silicon Valley, all of the Ivy Leagues, and Wall St.

10. What would happen if they say want to join America, would Trump step in.

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