Canada is an independent country, thank you.

Unfortunately Bill 14 does away with the rule that you can’t have two referendums on the same issue within five years. The Forever Canadian question that is now before the Legislature is very clear: “Do you agree that Alberta should remain in Canada?”

No, what the fuck is the UCP doing.

An obvious bluff. If it comes to that, the US needs NORAD more than we do. Also, the US can no longer be considered an ally.

This would be a terrible concession to a corporation that produces AI agents that drive teenagers to suicide. There are people in the government that still believe that the best way to deal with Trump and his corporate associates is to appease them. The evidence is clear that this assumption is horribly misguided.

Bessent is on record saying that Alberta should separate from Canada and join the United States, and the UCP government is doing its best to make that happen. The way to put a stop to this is by mobilizing. Last year we collected nearly half a million signatures for the question “Do you agree that Alberta should remain in Canada?” to be put to a referendum. The initiative was approved by Elections Alberta and it is now before the Alberta Legislature. The campaign continues. Please join us at forever-canadian.ca .

The Forever Canadian citizens’ initiative to call a referendum on the question “Do you agree that Alberta should remain in Canada?” collected over 400,000 signatures and was approved and sent to the Speaker of the Legislature by Elections Alberta. The UCP government must call either a vote in the Legislature or a referendum on the question by law. The only way they can avoid this is by calling a general election. Albertans can and will stop this separation nonsense.

That was 3 days ago. This is now: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-greenland-soldiers-trump-tariff-nato-denmark-9.7050621

In view of this Danielle Smith’s flirting with separatism is downright treasonous.

I honestly do not understand why the Government tries to appease Trump. What possible benefit to Canadians is there in this.

The article itself has many caveats. I wouldn’t pay too much attention to an attention-grabbing headline.

This is the part that I find interesting:

If Cisco ultimately proves its larger target, the project could anchor a domestic lithium supply chain linking Quebec mines and battery factories.

Before everyone gets their knickers in a twist, no, the referendum question has not been approved. The application has been approved. Now they have to collect the necessary signatures. What has collected the necessary signatures and been validated by Elections Alberta is the opposite motion, “Do you agree that Alberta should remain in Canada?” By law, this has to go either to a vote in the Legislature (which is extremely unlikely) or a referendum within six months. Many people believe the UCP willl call an election rather than a referendum, as all referendum questions die when an election is called.

Carney instead touted carbon capture and storage — a key condition of the Alberta agreement — as well as nuclear power generation.

What rubbish. CCUS is a fossil fuel industry scam (https://environmentaldefence.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Buyer-Beware-FFS-2022.pdf), and Carney should know it. Nuclear power generation needs to be heavily subsidized to compete with other energy sources, and of course it’s not renewable, and Carney should know that too.

Because the Forever Canadian initiative has been so successful more people see this as a way to resist the UCP. For example Corb Lund’s attempt to get a referendum vote on the disastrous coal mine leases. This is what has the UCP scrambling. But they can only stop future citizen initiatives. The Forever Canadian question “Do you agree that Alberta should remain in Canada?” has been approved. By law, it must lead either to a vote in the Legislature or a referendum and there’s nothing the UCP can to stop it. Well, there is one thing: a general election. When the writ is dropped, the referendum question dies, and so do all the recall campaigns. This is why it is extremely likely that we will go to an election soon.

I’m happy that Polievre may get the comeuppance he so richly deserves, and the CPC may sink further into irrelevance. But there’s a bigger point here: the LPC is now openly the real conservative party–it has been for a very long time, but they succeeded to some degree in making people believe they were “progressive”–and further, thanks to these desertions they are now very close to having a majority of seats. (I hope the people who voted for the floor crossers have learned their lesson). If the Liberals do get a majority, they should do the decent thing and call an election, because nobody voted for this.

Exactly. It’s time to put to an end the myth that the LPC is a “progressive” party.

It’s pretty obvious why, but the article doesn’t address the question asked in the headline.

Sounds like they’re preparing for war.

This is part of the Free Alberta Strategy, penned in 2021 by Smith’s right-hand man Rob Anderson, UofC political science prof and climate change denialist Barry Cooper, and someone called David From. The Sovereignty Act is also in there. Smith has clearly been trying to implement the strategy from day one. For those who are curious, freealbertastrategy.com .

The consequences for those who think they are protected are clear: they will be charged starting in October of 2026 (so much for “law-abiding gun owners”), and the RCMP is not in a bind. They will simply do their job. Smith is bringing this up now because her government is crumbling and she needs the crazy fan base more than ever.