51st state? Alberta’s break-up talk with Canada gets real: ‘It’s time that we’re set free’

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51st state? Alberta’s break-up talk with Canada gets real: ‘It’s time that we’re set free’
 
Alberta’s threat to divorce Canada is getting more serious than ever.

Premier Danielle Smith announced this week that the oil-rich province could hold its first-ever referendum on independence in 2026, as the area’s pro-51st state activists ramp up calls to ditch the Great White North in favor of the star-spangled banner.

“Staying with Canada is finished,” Alberta resident Steve Harvey, 52, told The Post. “We’ve been an eagle locked up in a cage for decades because of Canada. It’s time that we’re set free.”
 
 

Alberta’s beef with Canada comes from growing anger over what’s viewed as the Liberal government chocking the province’s oil industry.
 

“They’ve blocked new pipelines, cancelled various oil and gas projects and banned the very tanker ships needed to carry these resources to new markets,” Smith said this week in a livestreamed address to Albertans.

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[Smokin Joe]

Yep. Alberta's oil industry has been systematically strangled by Ottawa.
No province/state would want that.

Makes me wonder if Alberta bailed, would Saskatchewan be far behind? Maybe even Manitoba?

[roamer_1]

Yep. Alberta's oil industry has been systematically strangled by Ottawa.
No province/state would want that.

Makes me wonder if Alberta bailed, would Saskatchewan be far behind? Maybe even Manitoba?

Man... Yukon and NWT come along and suddenly AK is connected... That's ports and trucking and oil right down the Rockies....

[Hoodat]

Man... Yukon and NWT come along and suddenly AK is connected... That's ports and trucking and oil right down the Rockies....

Can we get BC as well?  And will Canada take Vermont off our hands?

[The_Reader_David]

I don't think we want British Columbia.  Nearly as looney Left as its neighbors just to the south.

Alberta I'd take, Saskatchewan, too.

I'm also not sure about Manitoba, they've tended to lean Left.

As for Trump's idea of absorbing the whole thing, the Democrats should be salivating at the prospect.  Before Trudeau the Elder, Canada's self-image was connected with having remained British, since then, their self-image has been formed by being to the Left of the United States.

[roamer_1]

I don't think we want British Columbia.  Nearly as looney Left as its neighbors just to the south.

Inland BC is some good folks. Just leave Vancouver out and the rest is fine. 

[roamer_1]

And btw... If Alberta broke with Canada, that does not mean they want to join the states.

[verga]

Can we get BC as well?  And will Canada take Vermont off our hands?

Sounds like a fair trade to me.