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Thoughts about the Alberta referendum? (lemmygrad.ml)
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Alberta is having a referendum in October where the main issue is whether it should separate from Canada. However, that is not the only question that will be asked. Many of the other questions have to do wth immigration, one’s “legal status,” and most of all giving the provinces more power.

One of the questions is about abolishing the federal senate. Another question that hit me hard was that they want to give the provinces more power to opt out of certain government programs, which isn’t great because Alberta has already messed around with disability programs here. Alberta wants to give less and less to people.

Just wanted to get everyone’s thoughts on this whole thing.

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[–] 16 points 1 week ago (1 child)

If Alberta secedes it will get either get absorbed by US or become their satellite. It won't be like balkanisation. So it will be a net gain for US at the cost of Canada. All I know about Alberta is that they have a lot of oil. Their hockey team is called the Oilers lmao

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago

    So it will be a net gain for US at the cost of Canada

    The Canadians are so subservient to the US that any American president could phone Canada up and ask for literally anything and the Canadians would give it to him immediately at any time no questions asked. The president could ask to sleep with the prime minister's wife and the prime minister's wife will be flown in the very next hour.

    Canada being a vassal of the US already, any secession or accession would be purely performative and would only change the de jure state of things rather than what materially matters.

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