Political dysfunction is not limited to the United States of America.
Take Canada. Things have gotten bad enough there that one province is taking measures to “dissolve the political bands which have connected them” with the folks running everything from Ottawa.
“While Canada’s new prime minister jets off to Davos to click glasses with his fellow globalists over at the World Economic Forum,” Dr. Steve Turley explained a few months ago, “back home, tens of thousands of Albertans are lining up in the freezing cold for a chance to vote their province out of the country. The length of the lines are astonishing. Thousands are showing up at high school gyms and community centers all across Alberta with one message: ‘We’re done; we’re leaving.”
Yesterday, this new Alberta First-like movement achieved a new milestone — or so says a “leading figure in the Alberta separatist movement,” according to Matthew Black of the Edmonton Journal.
The claim is that “separatist canvassers” have exceeded “the required 177,732 signatures and expect to far surpass that number before the May 2 deadline.”
Alberta’s secession is going to the ballot.
Will the voters choose yes?
Secession is a messy, difficult business. But it’s easier in Canada than in, say, the United States (where it led to war). So we will see how the people of the province really feel about how horrific the government in Ottawa really is.
Just remember, this is not out of the blue or crazy or unthinkable even in the U.S. The more dysfunctional federal — “central” — governments get, the more they risk being abandoned by political entities “below” them.
You might think this would incentivize politicians to listen to constituents in the hinterlands, but . . .
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2 replies on “Alberta Shrugs?”
Let’s recall that Quebecois separatists failed in their attempt, though their sense of grievance was long-standing and they had no trouble getting the measure on a ballot. And — oh! — the monkey-dance to follow from Canadian and American totalitarians if this Albertan measure fails!
I would be happy enough to see the less WEFfy parts of Canada free themselves from rule by their present state. But Canadians in general do not have nearly adequate respect for liberty of expression, so I want no union of any part of Canada with the United States. I want us to trade freely with them, but not to see their votes joined to ours.
It may or may not have been serious, but the four Atlantic Provinces were supposedly prepared to seek statehood in the US if Quebec secession became a reality, since they would have been cut off from the rest of Canada. I don’t see Alberta becoming the 51st state, but would any of its neighbors follow the secession route? We live in interesting times.