It will bring benefit to the US when the traitorous chuds join as the 51st state.
Future map of Canada:

It will bring benefit to the US when the traitorous chuds join as the 51st state.
Future map of Canada:

He is one of the voices that fueled this fire in previous decades, and now he is speaking against it?
That's like Sam Altman warning about the risks of AI...
Harper work for Big Oil Canada, what he is saying is « donβt go pwease, my boss will loose their government subsidies oil fieldΒ Β»
Those pushing for separation know this. They're looking to benefit themselves not Albertans.
Harper is smart enough to know that the entire case for separatism is built on lies and ommissions of relevant details, but instead of using his influence to call them out he's legitimizing the question by avoiding the same truths the separatists glaze over.
He's in league with them just unwilling to stand with them in public.
Wanting more autonomy for Alberta is not the same as wanting Alberta to leave Canada. The UCP is absolutely a separatist party. The CPC, while absolutely going full MAGA, is not. And I've not seen any actual evidence yet that Harper falls in either camp. Happy to be corrected, though.
Again, it's what Harper doesn't say that tarnishes him. He's not a dumb person and definitely sees through the separatist ππ©.
But does he say anything like that? No. Instead we get the weak and insipid headline statement.
Here's a rundown of the truly flawed arguments made by the separatists: https://dougaldlamont.substack.com/p/reminder-not-one-of-the-free-alberta?publication_id=2010569&post_id=218443307
He could call them out on any of these issues, but does he? Instead he validates the Alberta vs Ottawa framing that has no basis in truth.
Does the Quebec versus Canada framing also have no basis in truth? Was Canada wrong for allowing Quebec to have the autonomy it currently has? Because that's what Harper's spent years arguing for, including with his Alberta firewall letter addressed to Alberta's at the time not separatist Premier. I mean, I personally don't think Quebec should be allowed to have and run its own pension plan, but it does. If that's something Alberta's demanding, can we really be surprised?
But that's not what's under discussion here. If Alberta wants what Quebec has they can already do it. No referendum or new laws required.
They can't have the ridiculous amount they "calculated" from the CPP as theirs, nor make a go of a pension fund with only 4.2 million peoples. Which is why the idea died.
Harper made all those arguments, yes.
However I stand by my point here; Harper is validating the separatism by discussing it seriously, and failing to call out the deceptive "research" put forward in argument for. Anyone arguing AB should stay without debunking these is in league as far as I'm concerned.
Harper's using the moment to enhance his public image while giving the separatists a free pass.
So your opinion is that the "research" put forward in favour of separation should be taken seriously? Because that's what engaging with it is doing.
I can agree with that. Movements that have been long incubated in silos can't be suffocated, and these days they're just "big tenting" their way to legitimacy. Dismissal without correction withholds legitimacy about as well as shame affects the shameless.
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No it should not be taken seriously, it should be debunked for the fraudulent word salad it is.
Separation would bring no benefit, but separatism may have had a hand in the next pipeline being declared in the "national interest". That's a benefit for somebody.
I mean anything's possible, but when did the government start talking about this pipeline and when was the referendum announced? Separation or not, we've needed to reduce our dependence on the US since the start of Trump 2.0. We actually should have started before that.
GenX here. A very tiny subset of us were screaming not to do the FTA, way back in the 90s.
I don't remember things around a western pipeline really picking up until Carney and Smith signed their MOU, and separatism was definitely a thing before that. The referendum being announcing just changed the appeasment from trying to avoid a referendum to trying to get a good result from the referendum.
He's a reform party architect masquerading as a federalist. This is his fault.
Harper is showing face to make Kenney's hypocritical federalism seem convincing.
He is ONLY showing his young-earth-creationist, IDF-leading face to get Jason "separatist-light" Kenney in power.
If even Stephen Harper thinks it won't affect the people bankrolling him - nor the people of Alberta - then it's next-level bad.
Did they name the Landfill after him as hoped?
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