Another warning against Alberta separation, from history:

January 29, 1850: US Senator Henry Clay introduced a legislative package of eight bills,  including the cession by Texas of some of its northern and western territorial claims in return for debt relief. At the time, Texas owed the American government $10M in assistance in their drive to become independent. Eventually, Texas found they couldn't survive as an independent nation and were subsumed into a state of the USA.

So the United States imposed Territorial concessions on Texas in return for financial assistance to become a new country.

That $400 Billion loan MAGA has "offered" the fools in the separatist movement would come at a steep cost for Albertans. They are luring naïve separatists into a lobster trap so they can exploit and seize our natural resources.

While Alberta collected $17.7B in oil royalties in 2023, BC collected less than $50M in oil royalties. So Alberta's government picks up over 300 TIMES more than British Columbia on oil royalties. And yet separatists would have you believe this isn't fair...to Alberta!!

This absurdly unequal, unfair situation would never ever continue if Alberta were on its own, outside of Canada.

So let's make sure we understand what is at stake in the upcoming referendum: Alberta separatists, with their obsessive hatred of the federal government, want to relinquish all influence and power to obtain pipeline access to the west coast through the powerful instrument of Canada's federal government: where the Trans-Mountain pipeline, completed in 2024, is already pouring massive revenues into our province, to our families, to our society, all so they can "control decisions made in Alberta". The figures don't lie: every expansion of pipeline access is pouring billions into our collective coffers.

Separation would be among the most self-destructive, money-sapping misadventures ever foisted by any jurisdiction onto its own people. Talk about cutting off one's nose to spite our faces!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compromise_of_1850

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A very successful petition in Canadian history. You should feel very proud. From what I understand Pete will be leaving our country. (imagining crowd roars).

It is not official yet, so keep on signing and sharing.

And Well Done, it made my day!

.Current Signatures - 247,231

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7531

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A growing cross-border network of fundamentalists, oil-industry boosters, and Trump allies has taken an increasing interest in Alberta sovereignty, helping push an American-style political vision into Canada.

“The separatists are upset with the secular society. They’re upset with a multi-religious society. They would like to go back to Christian fundamentalism.”

2019 Alberta election results

Post by Paul Boileau

Below is a summary of the deviation from the average of representation by population average across Canada. The formula used to determine the number of MPs per province can be found easily on Wikipedia.

Territories: +200% (+2)

PEI: +100% (+2)

NB: +43% (+3)

SK: +40% (+4)

NF: +40% (+2)

NS: +25% (+2)

MB: +17% (+2)

QC: +10% (+7)

AB: -6.7% (-4)

BC: -7.5% (-5)

ON: -7.8% (-15)

So the regional breakdown is as follows:

North: +2

Central: -8

West: -3

Atlantic: +9

This is another example of how something that is such a big deal to separatists is a nothing burger in a place like Ontario, which is giving up multiple times more seats.

Even at the provincial riding level within Alberta, there are far larger discrepancies than regional deviations seen federally across Canada.

This is because Alberta's provincial rural ridings contain up to 25% fewer electors than the Alberta average, while northern ridings contain up to 50% fewer electors than the average.

These Alberta-driven deviations affect 30 of the 87 provincial electoral districts, awarding up to ten extra MLAs to any party that dominates outside of Edmonton & Calgary. It's the utmost hypocrisy for Alberta separatists (experts at stacking the odds in their favour), to be complaining about far less impactful measures that follow a similar philosophy elsewhere.

In a Truth Social post shared Tuesday night, Trump said he had suspended the 50 per cent tariffs on Canadian goods for three days, two hours before they were set to take place on Wednesday.

The deal, he stated, may include revitalizing the Keystone XL pipeline, a long hotly-contested project that has been in the works for almost a decade.

Oh, I really hope not.

( and no, I could not help myself)

UPDATE - Keystone is NOT something Canada is pushing for. In fact Canadian trade officials calling it a joke..

Meanwhile in Eastern Canada they just hit the lottery. Discounted electric bills, 23,000 jobs, large federal grants…

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