“In the weeks and months ahead, Albertans will have an opportunity to discuss our province’s future, assess various options for strengthening and protecting our province against future hostile acts from Ottawa, and to ultimately choose a path forward,” she said in a statement Tuesday.
“As Premier, I will facilitate and lead this discussion and process with the sincere hope of securing a prosperous future for our province within a united Canada that respects our province’s constitutional rights, facilitates rather than blocks the development and export of our abundant resources, and treats us as a valued and respected partner within Confederation.”
Ms. Smith’s new proposals also include reintroducing corporate and union donations to parties, constituency associations, prospective candidate associations, leadership contestants and third-party election advertisers, including those campaigning in referendums. It also eased spending limits, among other changes.
Both the provincial New Democratic Party and the UCP previously took steps to limit the amount of corporate and union money in the electoral system.
I am interested in how they expect to deal with ALL of the Treaty and unceded Indigenous lands. I’m not Indigenous but from what I’ve heard and read from many Indigenous people in the area of Alberta, they are not likely to want to go with Alberta.
There’s also all of the federal land in Alberta (military bases, natl parks, etc.) I agree with the other comments on how dumb of a move this would be for them. Did they learn nothing from Brexit? Do they KNOW about Brexit?!
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I’ve been here longer and it’s a lot higher then 20%.
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I’m sort of hoping they do leave just because they don’t seem to understand that they are an economically weak province outside of oil. All of their eggs are in one basket and they think that, because it’s a lucrative basket, it makes them important and powerful. It doesn’t. The point of our confederation is that we, together, are strong in a wide variety of industries.
Danielle Smith is going to find out very quickly that she and Alberta need the rest of Canada a lot more than Canada needs Alberta. Also, say goodbye to your CPP, OAS, and EI contributions. The impact on schools, water treatment, pharmaceuticals, food safety, and road regulations alone are significant cause for concern. I guess she just doesn’t care whether Albertans are safe, educated, and healthy, she only cares about oil.
Danielle Smith is going to find out very quickly that she and Alberta need the rest of Canada a lot more than Canada needs Alberta. Also, say goodbye to your CPP, OAS, and EI contributions. The impact on schools, water treatment, pharmaceuticals, food safety, and road regulations alone are significant cause for concern.
Not to mention all oil leaving Alberta would still have to travel through Canada to get to an ocean port. They would have to negotiate with a “foreign country” for that …
Frankly I find it amazing that Albertans aren’t the most acutely aware how fragile their economy is. They’ve suffered several oil crashes, even two in the last decade or so, and yet they feel like they’ll do better without Ontario and Quebec to prevent a total economic crash any time oil prices dip?
And this is at a time when oil prices are already starting to fall, with pretty much every forecast blaring out that oil will become nearly worthless by the end of the century, if not within the next two decades?
Oh, and this is even before considering that the only other province that has a snowball’s chance in hell to give Alberta a hand once there’s no federal government to force the provinces to work together (even marginally), is Saskatchewan. I strongly doubt that BC would allow Albertan oil to pass through their province if the Feds wasn’t there to make them play nice together. Maybe natural gas, but definitely not oil. And in such a case, the only significant buyer of Albertan oil will be the the US, and I would bet actual money that the first thing they’d do would be to ask for a discount on oil, because they know it is litterally the only thing preventing Alberta from becoming a 3rd world economy.
Yeah, it’s sort of a failure of their education system that these people can’t put 2 and 2 together. I really hope they’re smart enough not to FAFO on a referendum, but the fact that Smith keeps pushing for it is a big deal.
I believe that she could stir up enough fervor that the province votes to leave because they’re high on false promises. If they do, there’s no “take-backsies.” It’s a one-way ticket out of the country no matter how many people suffer for it.
…because the only thing that Albertans were missing was more money in the politics. They really want to be just like the US.
Thing is, I’ve talked to a number of Albertans — they all voted Conservative, and they all despise what the Conservative leadership has become.
But they despise the Liberals even more, and see them as being actively harmful to Albertan prosperity, instead of just the fascists they know.
They’re all voting anti-Liberal, not pro-Conservative.
Makes me think they all need to switch to NDP.
Makes me think they all need to switch to NDP
We’ll see if Nenshi can talk them into that when the next provincial election comes around.
They’re all voting anti-Liberal, not pro-Conservative.
There are more than two parties running in every riding in Alberta. They don’t show them the time of day, either.
They’re just smart enough to be embarrassed for their pro-conservative votes.
If this is gearing towards a referendum vote to separate from Canada, this will be this single dumbest thing the province has ever done.
So you mean to tell me Alberta would be better off with the people that shrugged Danielle off after all her effort to negotiate? That the province would somehow be able to magically do what it wants as a separate entity from Canada? I love when I’m a landlocked nation and need to ship my resources through foreign countries in order to get it to buyers.
Idiots. Fucking idiots.
If Alberta even tries a separation vote there will be American boots on the ground to ”liberate” like Russia in Crimea.
Even taking steps to this is THE stupidest move possible and practically sedition.
