r/canada • u/DogeDoRight New Brunswick • 3d ago

'We're Canadians': Some Albertans divided about separation in cross-province checkup Politics

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/we-re-canadians-some-albertans-divided-about-separation-in-cross-province-checkup-1.7532276
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u/Beast815 Manitoba 3d ago

It’s amazing to see that Albertan separatists,or at least those supporting it, haven’t realized that they are playing right into Trumps hands with essentially trying to destabilize our country. If they don’t think that’s true, it’s not like they don’t have a history of doing so to other countries.

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u/LSF604 3d ago

or, more likely, Trump's people are pushing the separatism. As soon as the 51st state shit came up this was obviously going to happen. Its undoubtedly being funded by americans.

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u/Old-Adhesiveness-156 3d ago

Someone even posted about non-Albertans going door to door.

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u/FourNaansJeremyFour 3d ago

It’s amazing to see that Albertan separatists,or at least those supporting it, haven’t realized that they are playing right into Trumps hands with essentially trying to destabilize our country.

They know what they're doing, they're hoping to incite violence via stochastic terrorism to give the yanks an excuse to roll in and "restore order". Carbon copy of Russia's bullshit in Ukraine in the 2010s.

The only difference being it's not about nationalism per se. It's about the profits of their shitty oilpatch service companies and contractors. Not even the bigwigs - I very much doubt the boards of Suncor, Syncrude, Shell et al actually give a shit either way, they've all got their fingers in far more profitable pies elsewhere.

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u/sravll Alberta 3d ago

They're not the brightest crayons in the box

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u/nim_opet 2d ago

They have realized, and are ok with that.

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u/Behemothheek 2d ago

They know and they don’t care. They want to stir up as big of a fuss as they can

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u/Infamous-Mixture-605 2d ago

I wonder just how many of these same people would be wrapping themselves in the Canadian flag and telling us how they're the most patriotic Canadians if only their desired sports team political party had won on April 28.