Blatantly funded by the US. Where are all the “foreign interference!!!” Conservatives now? How is this legal??

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      The Canadian prosecution and courts absolutely need to squash this. Sub-state actors goin on random adventures like this causes war down the line - in fact we had a 30 Years’ war about that.

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    Always was. Make no mistake that Alberta is Canada’s Sudetenland/Crimea. Is it not obvious to say the US military appears more similar to Nazi Germany rather than Russia a couple years ago. Canada is stronger with Alberta and when it’s annexed there must be a fight or it’ll just be easier to get at the rest of greater Canada. Ideally to send a message, traitors/secessionists are imprisoned ASAP.

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    Not going to happen. Plus, I’ve read that most of those that do want to separate don’t want join the US.

    Even IF the people of Alberta vote in favour of leaving Canada it still has to be approved by Parliament, and that is not happening at this time with the current seat counts for each party.

    I have lived in Calgary, Alberta for over 20 years. I don’t know a single person who would want to leave Canada. I also know that Alberta would not stand a chance alone. We DEPEND on the federal government for funding and other Provinces for goods. We’re land locked and have next to no manufacturing.

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      Votes aren’t looking like they’re going to mean anything in the US anymore. Don’t be too confident they’re going to respect any vote in Alberta.

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      Plus, I’ve read that most of those that do want to separate don’t want join the US.

      That’s the fun part, once the US separates you from Canada, you don’t get a choice about whether you want to join the US anymore, because your collapsing economy leaves you no choice. Divide and conquer, literally.

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        Hopefully those that would vote to separate know this …

        IF on the off chance it happens there will be a mass exodus. I’d be moving to British Columbia in a heart beat.

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          Look at Brexit. Many people look no further than what’s on their Facebook feeds, making it quite easy to sway a referendum that fucks over a whole populace.

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            It amazes me that after seeing that complete shitshow that was Brexit that provincial separatists are like “Yea, this is exactly what we want and need to work towards”. Bottom of the cesspool bottom feeders the lot of them.

            Je dirige tout autant mes critiques acerbes vers les séparatistes québécois.

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    You all wannabe Americans? Go ahead and move to the US. Apply for citizenship. No one is stopping you. You’re doing the rest of us a favor.

    But, you don’t get to take the land with you.

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      We should have some citizenship exchange program so they can swap with those being persecuted in US for not being male white rich.

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      We could start by enforcing our laws. Foreign interference is everywhere, and we’ve just ignored it for decades. Eg, the US funds the Frasier Institute and no one makes any comment about this. Half of our media is owned by them. The convoy was subsidized by US funding. I don’t believe for a moment that the UCP and/or its members aren’t awash in US corporate bribes and cash promises.

      Our country is under threat and no one seems to do a damn thing about it. Why doesn’t any politician discuss this? Poilievre talks about Chinese interference, where is the concern for this interference by the US, very clearly our enemy??!

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      No one is stopping you

      To be fair, even if in the US legally, ICE is stopping you. And then shipping you off to some other foreign country’s jail.

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    This is an ongoing operation by the CIA to Balkanize Canada. Canadians need to wake the fuck up.

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    They can vote themselves out if they want.

    They don’t get the land, though; they trade their passport for a plane ticket.

    That’s the only deal they get. C’est bon?

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      I would be happy if separation means individual separation from Canada…they turn in their passport and get a ride over the border.

      But the US doesn’t want them they want the resources.

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        We always need oil field workers, but they better not be expecting any government handouts.

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      Can we just ship the dinks that agreed with it? The rest of us like where we live.

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      Alberta separatists never shut up about running a pipeline through Washington to the west coast.

      If the West Coast went to Canada after Alberta separated, that would be the ultimate poetic justice. Alberta would be back negotiating with Canada but now as a foreign state with all the animosity of a recent separation. I’d almost like to see it if it didn’t mean massive political upheaval.

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        As a Washingtonian: Fuck that, and fuck them.

        Also, do they know anything about Washington? Good luck getting us to agree to an oil pipeline.

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        Wexit is like Brexit but way more petty, stupid, and pointless. An independent Alberta couldn’t defend themselves against ICE stationed in Montana, let alone the US military proper.

        And, since America is taking custody of oilfields in this hemisphere under the Monroe Doctrine, the Tarsands are a likely target. Danielle Smith better get comfy cosy with the idea of living in a detention facility, charged with “insulting the Dear Leader under her breath” (slander) or “being a woman in power” (blasphemy).

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    Kick these traitors out of Canada or prison. Carney needs to do something about this

    #treason

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    I propose a border swap: USA gets Alberta, Canada gets Washington State

    (Please I beg you get me out of here)

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    Trade it for California?

    I get that they are being hypocrites, but surely it would only make it easier for US states to secede.