Oil-Rich Alberta Now Preparing Vote on
Leaving Canada

The thugs in the Canadian capital will never let loose of their tax slaves. Never. You can vote your way in, but you have to shoot your way out.

Dream while it lasts Alberta!!

Asking Ottawa for permission to secede is like asking a mugger for permission to not be beaten. Declare your independence and work with Trump to make it stick?

Don't see it happening. Canada will never let them go. It reminds me of the southern states trying to leave the union. It resulted in a civil war.

It's silly. It's always been silly. It's like President Trump talking about making Canada a state. Utter nonsense. It will not happen. Period. What will happen is some sort of public relations referendum, results of which will be used in turn by the premier, who seems quite clever to me, to negotiate concessions with Ottawa. As far as secession is concerned and the possibility of Ottawa forcibly resisting, also utterly implausible. Canadians are too civil for civil war. If Quebec, alberta, or any of the provinces truly did vote for secession in a meaningful way, and pursue that objective at the national level, and the Canadian federal government was unable to dissuade them, they would be allowed to leave peacefully in the most organized way possible. Not to pick on my Canadian friends, who get more than enough of that from Americans lately, but Canada is made up of people who chose stability over liberty during the American revolutionary war. Nothing culturally has changed since then.

Ted Cruz was born in Alberta. He can be their first president and then Alberta can be like Texas and join the USA.

Wishing Albertans all the best, but I believe the Bureaucrats will sink their effort, one way or another.

If Alberta did leave Canada I would advise against joining the United States. Were I a citizen of that province I would not want to join the brokest country in history.

Uh-oh! Will Harper be forced to send in Sergeant Preston and his dog, Yukon King?

Ya know, folks might just settle down if they'd bring back the Red Green Show.

#5 seems so certain. The Canadians are actually Pollyannas, that view isn't realistic, IMO. Look how Trudeau and his evil minions smashed a few truckers daring to disagree publicly.

FTA - "And, if Alberta holds this vote while Donald Trump is still president, they should expect an offer to join the USA as the 51st state if the vote passes, which is sure to toss a bowl of poutine onto Ottawa's hockey rink." Based on what I hear from my right-leaning family in B.C., the vote is likely to happen. What happens after that? Probably a lot of pushing and shoving between Alberta's provincial government and Ottawa. There will be attempts to isolate provincial government leaders, destroy them, and silence them as traitors to the Crown. As for Alberta's citizenry who support secession, Ottawa will tar and feather them all to beat them down economically and financially. After Ottawa threatens Alberta with its share of Canada's national debt if it were to secede, then the Albertans will come to discover some very hard facts. However, Alberta does hold a very high cards - its oil patch is enormous. Would Ottawa respond with RCMP taking the entire province hostage? Possible but not likely. But a problem - the Alberta population doesn't have anything to shoot with. So it can't simply declare its independence and become a sovereign nation of its own. Become America's 51st state? It's remotely possible especially if Trump is still President. If this happens, expect Saskatchewan and Manitoba to follow. Quebec would pull the plug and become its own nation. Nunavut and Yukon would likely follow. It's the beginning of the end for the great white north. Canada brought this all on themselves largely driven by decades of failed socialist policies, previous prime ministers including Trudie, and the lefty Vancouver and Toronto crowds (which are filled with plenty of left-leaning chicoms and muslims) who always want their special status. And especially by ignorant Canadians who believe everything they hear on CBC. After the vote, I fully expect Ottawa to repel Alberta's attempt to leave with extreme vengeance and possible violence. Recall what Trudie did to the Truckers during their massive protest in Ottawa back in 2022 - he took their bank accounts away from them and starved them out, remember? Leftist PM Carney will have his hands full with this.

If the province wants to succeed. If the Canadian goobernment gets violent to suppress succession. If those wanting to leave Canada need to arm themselves, there is a simple solution. Trump could actually take the opportunity to unite his political opponents and Alberta citizens with one bold but proven strategy. Get two well know gun runners, highly successful in international gun running to handle the operation for the US. It's not like Obambi and his lackey Holder have anything better to do. And it gets them back in goobernment and running guns again. Just like the good ole days!

we root for them, and pray for them to achieve liberty from globalist tyranny.

After checking with my Canadian family, Alberta's vote to secede is scheduled for October.

#11 is right about most things, and this is one of them. I am certain. The example he gives is a good one. Canadians have a very limited capacity and cultural tolerance for civil disobedience. (Unless it involves First Nations people.) I'm not endorsing what the federal government did in any way during COVID. I'm explaining it because it supports my main point: Canadians prize order (and obedience) more than Americans. They would not, and did not, tolerate civil disobedience from citizens. But that's different from using force to suppress peaceful secession by a province. Canada is a confederation, and that's not just a nuance. The provinces are sovereign entities in a way the states no longer are in America. There are spheres in which the Canadian Federal government's only involvement is to collect and provide revenues, and those policies and police powers remain entirely with the provincial governments. It is unlikely in the extreme that the Canadian federal government would ever use force against a province. The last time that happened in any serious way was in the 19th century before many of the western provinces even existed (Northwest rebellion). But at that time, the federal government was the only operative authority in those territories. What subsequently became the Western provinces now have real sovereignty and true jurisdiction. If the decision were made at the provincial level to leave Canadian confederation, there would be some hardball negotiations both ways, but no force in either direction would be needed. Just my two loonies.