Alberta’s Danielle Smith has said a vote on separation will be held next year if a petition gains enough support.
Alberta could hold a public referendum on breaking away from Canada next year if a citizen-led petition gets the required number of signatures, the province’s premiere, Danielle Smith, said on Monday.
The western province has long clashed with the federal government over legislation limiting fossil fuel development and promoting clean energy, which Alberta officials say unfairly targets their economy. Smith’s announcement comes days after the Liberal Party secured a fourth consecutive term in the federal election, deepening political divides between Ottawa and oil-rich Alberta.
Following the election, the Alberta Prosperity Project launched a petition calling for a referendum on the province’s independence. The petition garnered more than 80,000 signatures within 36 hours of its May 2 launch and remains open for public support.
“Should Ottawa, for whatever reason, continue to attack our province as they have done over the last decade? Ultimately that will be for Albertans to decide,” Smith said.
She added that although she does not personally support the idea of separation, she would respect the will of voters. “I will accept their judgement,” the premiere said.
Recently, Smith’s government also introduced legislation to lower the threshold for referendums initiated by citizen petition. The bill reduces the number of signatures needed from 20% to 10% of eligible voters from the last provincial election and extends the collection period from 90 to 120 days. In order to pass the threshold, a petition would need about 177,000 signatures.
Smith noted that Alberta doesn’t want “special treatment or handouts;” it just wants to be free to develop its “incredible wealth of resources” and choose how to provide healthcare and education. She expressed hope that secession would not be necessary and that her government would be able to reach an agreement with Prime Minister Mark Carney and Canada’s new government.
Last week, Carney’s Liberal Party retained power after a campaign that focused heavily on what he called the existential threat posed by US President Donald Trump, who has floated the idea of Canada becoming the 51st US state and imposed extensive tariffs on most of its neighbor’s goods.
The outcome of the election has added to long-running tensions in conservative regions. In Alberta, where the Conservatives won 34 out of 37 seats, many residents have expressed frustration with their federal leadership. Similar dissatisfaction has been reported in neighboring Saskatchewan, and to a lesser extent in British Columbia.
This could happen with binding referendums for all three Provinces, and there isn’t much that the Canadian Government could do based on their current-standing laws of rules, rights, and matched sovereignty.
Trump would not ‘invade’ Canada at that point, as these three Provinces are where the minerals and oil are at.
The three Provinces would also enjoy full Constitutional and Bill of Rights coverage; that includes the RIGHT to own and carry firearms, which they cannot do in Canada for the most part, no thanks to the Trudeaus imposing violations of the UN Right to Self Defence.
So we’ll see…
A similar situation exists with the relationship between New Zealand and Australia; Oz offered NZ the chance to become part of Australia in 1911, and the offer still stands.
With Kiwis leaving NZ for Oz in record numbers, NZ should seriously consider doing this if we’re not going to be a Neutral Nation.
Gone would be ACC, the GRI (replaced by Social Security) and a health care system that is not in crisis.
BUT-
Such things like Stamp Duty on real estate, Water Fees, etc. are a draw-back.
A NZ Select Committee should study this proposal that still stands, to balance the pros & cons.
Keep in mind that this is the same scenario where the Russian Orthodox Christians in the Donbass Region in eastern Ukraine VOTED TO LEAVE
THE UKRAINE AND RE-JOIN RUSSIA, just like the Crimea did, via fair and honest monitored elections.
The ethnic Russian people, their religion, culture and language were under attack to the tune of 10,000 dead between 2014 when the J3w3$$ Victoria Nuland (aka Nudelman) pulled-off a Maidan-style coup in the Ukraine, and threw-out the duly-elected President of the Ukraine and replaced him with fellow J3w Zelensky. That is when the bloodshed began in the eastern Ukraine.
Zelensky (a porno-clown) stated that he wanted to “make the Ukraine into another Israel”. We can all see how that has turned-out…
Zelensky continues to send non-J3w$ into conscripted combat for the purpose of indirect responsibility for killing off the Christians, Gentiles and Goyim…
Zelensky has closed the Ufrainian AND Russian Orthodox Churches, and outlawed Russian history, language, and customs. Legally speaking, when that happens, it is considered to be Genocide according to the definition in Black’s Law Dictionary.
In the meantime, we see Genocide, Holodomor, War Crimes and the violations of International Law occurring in Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, and soon Jordan and Egypt. Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Mielkowski (a Polish J3w who’s father adopted the surname of ‘Netanyahu’) continues to wreak havoc in the region with the Zionist support of the usual J3wi$h-appointed Presidential Cabinets over the decades in the USSA.
Maybe this will all stop when the below finally happens…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5T5CF1jhTg
Save yourselves from the dictator Alberta!
This is what happens when people loose all confidence in central government. Its side stepping a civil war, in effect. Perhaps we could leave the useless, globalist moron politicians, in the North Island and the South could become independent?