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Alberta Is Talking Tough Love to Carney – HotAir

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Shiver me timbers – that didn’t take long.

The Canadian elections were held on Monday, and the anointed and appointed Prime Minister, liberal Mark Carney, was able to grab the mantle of legitimacy with his win over the snake-bit conservatives and their leader, Pierre Poilievre.





He is one happenin’ dude for a stuffed-shirt WEF banker.

Carney had a little media help shooing him into office, too.

What he didn’t have was a lot of love from the Western provinces, as the Prime Minister is a big climate cultist, not unsurprising considering his Davos and United Nations affiliations.

His win assures those Canadians most involved in the fossil fuel industries and who, being the most remote and frostbitten of the Canadian territories, are most at risk from insane cultist mandates, that they will remain in a state of thrall to the dictates coming out of a deaf-to-their-concerns Ottawa.

…But the Liberal Party’s win means that Canada will likely stay the course on many existing environmental policies—including a zero-emission vehicle sales mandate along with clean electricity and fuel regulations. “In most respects, it is a continuation of a slate of policies that were put in place by the Liberal government under Justin Trudeau,” says Kathryn Harrison, professor of political science at the University of British Columbia.

Carney’s career has often straddled the line between the private sector and the climate fight. He became a U.N. Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance in 2019, and in 2021 launched the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, an initiative aimed at bringing together financial institutions to support the transition to a net-zero economy. His experiences were reflected in many of the Liberal’s campaign proposals, Harrison says. “A couple of the items you see in the platform, [like] that commitment to sustainable investment guidelines, is very consistent with Carney’s work as a special envoy,” she says. 





The way I understand the Canadian constitution to work, there is a mechanism for provinces to separate from the pack should they choose to do so.

A petition for Alberta’s independence had been languishing for some time, begun thanks to Trudeau’s ham-fisted authoritarianism but not really gaining traction in spite of it.

That all changed after the results of Monday’s elections were finalized.

Natural resource-rich Alberta and its advocates are pointing out they’ve been paying the freight for liberal Canada’s welfare state forever, while being ignored or reviled the entire time, and they’re tired of it.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has been going toe-to-toe with Ottawa over their electricity-related Net Zero mandates already.





And now she says, ‘Alberta has had enough.’

And suddenly, it looks as if Ottawa has a regional revolt on its hands, not just a single pissed off province. 

Saskatchewan’s premier just said, ‘I’m not gonna stop anyone trying to leave.’ It takes 15% of the population signing a petition to trigger a vote to start the process.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says he’s a true Canadian but wouldn’t stop a public vote on separating from the country if it came forward.

Moe says residents are allowed to trigger provincial legislation for a plebiscite on the issue.

He says he does not judge people for having different opinions but says he supports a united Canada.

Some of Canada’s ‘First Nation’ tribes were so alarmed at the talk they tried to throw a wrench in the separation works by claiming the constitution says ‘You can’t so that without our okay’ and were quickly shot down.





WE’RE DOIN’ IT

Billboards are already going up in Alberta.

British Columbia is also mewling in the background, watching while Alberta agitates amid renewed vigor for doing the once impossible to imagine.

As separation supporters call for a conversation around Alberta leaving Canada, the provincial government has tabled new legislation that would help those supporters call a referendum on the topic.

Bill 54, introduced in the Alberta legislature on Tuesday, includes a suite of changes aimed at changing the province’s democratic processes, including amending the Citizen Initiative Act to make it easier for residents to trigger a referendum.

It’s a change there appears to be an appetite for after the Liberals secured a fourth term on Monday.

“Yesterday was the birthday for many new Alberta separatists,” Republican Party of Alberta leader Cameron Davies told CTV News on Tuesday.

“This is now a completely abusive relationship (with Ottawa), and our mediation has failed. So, our only alternative is to now file for divorce from Canada.”

While it’s difficult to verify where online signatures come from, one change.org petition for Alberta separation and a western alliance has collected 200,000 of them since 2019 – with more than 14,000 new ones added on Wednesday.

Data from the Angus Reid Institute in early April found 25 per cent of Albertans polled would vote to have their province become its own country and 22 per cent wanting to join the U.S.





Only Alberta has the established economic and population heft to pull it off on their own, so it might behoove a normally arrogant Carney to give the firebrand premier her due.

…Alberta’s per capita GDP is $70,876, higher than Finland, France, UK and Italy. 

Sure she is landlocked, but so is Mongolia.  

She could break away from Canada just like Slovakia left Czechoslovakia. Nice and neighborly.

There’s nothing like a good neighbor.

This is going to be fun to watch.

 







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