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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[–] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Danielle Smith has brain worms (not sure what sort, she's all kinds of crazy) and the whole right wing infighting/one-upping of Albertan politics is mindblowing.

The secession language is funny because it's not legal (on multiple levels) for a province to secede, so Smith had to get the language all carefully due up:

The Government of Alberta should commence the legal process required under the Canadian Constitution to hold a binding provincial referendum on whether or not Alberta should separate from Canada.

As far as I can guess, none of the other nine questions are constitutional either (and many require majority or unanimous consent from the other nine provinces as they amount to constitutional amendments). Albertans just have a persecution complex and, with the big bad Quebecker Trudeau (oh wait, the other one was the Quebecker... whatever, he is too, get him!) of office and a Western Canadian in his place they need a new (old) big bad to fight against, the federal union as a whole. Aside from the three-plus-generations long tradition of fucking over workers, migrants, sick, elderly, kids, queers... basically everyone who isn't an oil tycoon or a far right grifter politician.

It's a shame because Alberta is beautiful (when you ignore all the oil mess) but it's just so fucked.

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