By Senator Paula Simons
So I’m calling on us to do something un-Canadian: to put aside our habitual self-deprecation and stand up for the country we love—and reject the idea of a sovereign Alberta whose founding principles seem to be miserliness, xenophobia and transphobia. We need to raise our voices to denounce the dark fantasy of a landlocked, petulant petrostate dedicated to hoarding wealth, denouncing immigrants, denying climate change, spurning vaccines, protecting patriarchy and endangering queer kids. Because Alberta’s current crop of separatists don’t just want to leave Canada. They seem to want to opt out of the 21st century entirely.
As an Albertan, I would say that there are some people in Alberta that want to be completely independent, some that want to be part of the US, and the majority thinks those people are crazy. Also Diagolon is kicking around, but they’re incredibly fringe and weird.
I can’t speak for Quebec, but I personally haven’t heard much about their separatist movement for a good while.
Albertan here as well and I agree. The are two small but super noisy (and annoying) groups that are for separation.
The average Albertan has no interest in leaving Canada.
I immigrated to Canada a couple of decades ago and picked Alberta as home. If they ever separate I am gone. I wanted to be in Canada and that hasn’t changed. I’ll be actively working to avoid any separation and definitely will also be front line to defend Canada from any outside attacks.
100%. I’m a 3rd generation Albertan and my plan has been to live here the rest of my life. The Alberta separation movement, as far as I see it, is a wild media frenzy pushed on by our fragile premier. Its supported by equally thin-skinned and petulant crybabies with no forward thinking skills, which, again as far as I can tell, is a steep minority.
But if I’m wrong, and this thing gets close to real, I’m gone and my only hope of not being financially ruined by dumping all the equity in my home is that one of these morons doubles down in hopes of knocking down my house to build a mansion for the ‘inevitable flood of wealthy white people’.
We’ll need to stick together and make sure this doesn’t happen.
Absolutely. A part of me hopes the referendum happens so we can get an overwhelming ‘no’ on the record.
Prove it.
Why would I have anything to prove to you?
How? Would a poll work?
The PQ ( quebec ) always talk about separation this year they do it using right-wing rhetorics which sadly seem to work but it’s never that serious people mostly vote for them because there is no real other choice right now