Alberta premier’s request for separation referendum question approval rebuffed
(globalnews.ca)
from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 30 Jul 2025 10:03
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from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 30 Jul 2025 10:03
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Sounds like a billionaires ploy to create an oil state that they can take and run as a kingdom.
The tourism ads write themselves:
“Alberta: it’s Louisiana with Healthcare”
“Alberta: it’s Venezuela without good food”
“Alberta: it’s Saudi Arabia with a shittier climate”
I wouldn’t count on the good healthcare to survive if Alberta leaves Canada
Alberta is actively destroying their healthcare now. It likely won’t survive Smith’s term.
I’m not Canadian but I lived there for a few years. I went back to my home country, but I still follow Canadian politics closely.
Calgary has the worst traffic fatalities rate in the country:
cbc.ca/…/pedestrian-deaths-increase-1.7530354
Alberta has the worst measles epidemic in North America:
ctvnews.ca/…/alberta-surpasses-us-in-confirmed-me…
Premier Danielle Smith publically criticized vaccines:
<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5fe908ab-7350-4efe-ab29-8cd4be8e54c6.png">
cbc.ca/…/danielle-smith-adolf-hitler-netflix-rach…
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If Alberta politicians are too incompetent to manage traffic safety or prevent measles, what makes people think they can manage a new country…???
No offense, but this would be a Failed State on day 1.
She would beg Trump to come annex Alberta on day 1.
How about amend it so that if it fails, she ends up in prison?