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[DDB12 @DDB12P]

@KJJTax How do i set up with a US brokerage house?

[Jon Alberta Patriot @JonFromAlberta]

Canada’s national symbol tells a story—just not Alberta’s.

The maple leaf is presented as a unifying emblem, something meant to speak for a vast and diverse country stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Prairies to the Arctic. But symbols matter precisely because they reveal what a nation actually sees itself as. And the truth is this: the maple leaf does not represent Canada as lived by Albertans. It represents the Canada that formed first, governed longest, and still holds the levers of power.

Geographically, the maple leaf is rooted in a very specific place. The sugar maple grows naturally along the St. Lawrence River corridor—southern Ontario and Quebec—the historic heart of colonial settlement, administration, and trade. That region became the political and cultural core of Confederation. Its values, assumptions, and priorities hardened into institutions. Over time, its identity became national identity by default.

That is not an accident. It is how centralized states form.

The maple leaf emerged as Canada’s defining symbol during a period when the country was actively consolidating authority away from the regions and toward Ottawa. It replaced British imperial imagery not with a truly pan-continental symbol, but with one drawn from the Laurentian heartland—the same elite corridor that still dominates federal politics, media, finance, and bureaucracy. The leaf symbolizes continuity: smooth governance, managed consensus, institutional authority, and moral legitimacy conferred from the centre outward.

Alberta’s story could not be more different.

Alberta was not shaped by river valleys and administrative capitals. It was shaped by open prairie, harsh winters, distance, risk, and work that actually had to produce something real. Its culture grew from homesteaders, ranchers, farmers, rig workers, tradespeople, and entrepreneurs—people who could not afford abstraction. Survival required responsibility. Prosperity required effort. Freedom was not theoretical; it was practical.

Where the Laurentian model values centralized planning, Alberta values earned outcomes. Where the eastern establishment trusts institutions first, Albertans trust individuals who show up and do the work. Where Canada’s federal culture emphasizes regulation, process, and moral posturing, Alberta emphasizes contribution, accountability, and results.

And yet Alberta is governed as if it were an afterthought—an economic engine to be managed, restrained, and redistributed, not a people with a distinct identity and legitimate claim to self-government.

That is the deeper conflict. Alberta is not merely “discontent.” It is misrepresented.

The maple leaf asks Alberta to see itself reflected in a symbol that grew somewhere else, emerged from someone else’s history, and now legitimizes a centralized system that consistently overrides Alberta’s democratic will. It asks Albertans to accept moral authority from institutions they did not build, governed by elites who neither understand nor respect the culture that built this province.

Alberta independence is not about anger or symbolism for its own sake. It is about alignment—between a people and the system that governs them. A nation’s symbols should reflect its land, its work, and its values. When they do not, the problem is not the people who feel alienated. The problem is the structure that insists on speaking for them anyway.

Alberta does not need to be “included” in someone else’s story.

It is strong enough to write its own.

Now go sign the petition and bring 25 friends!

-JonFromAlberta

[DDB12 @DDB12P]

@RealAlexJones

Alex, you're damn right to call this out. Mark Carney just stood in Beijing, groveling to the CCP, and proudly declared that Canada's "partnership" with Communist China "sets us up well for the new world order."

He didn't misspeak. He meant every word. This is the same globalist banker who's spent decades pushing centralized control, digital currencies, and elite technocracy. Now he's selling out Canada's sovereignty to Beijing while turning his back on the West.

As an Albertan, I've got a message for Carney and his Laurentian Elite cronies in Ottawa:

**We want NOTHING to do with your so-called "new world order."**
Your Ottawa bubble treats the West like a resource colony—block our oil, take our money, ignore our voices, then lecture us about "progress" while you cozy up to dictators.

Alberta's hardworking people, farmers, oil workers, and families built this province despite your neglect and hostility. We reject your WEF-style globalism, your carbon taxes, your sellouts to China, and your contempt for everything in the west.

**Down with Carney. Down with the Laurentian elites who think they own this country.**

Alberta First. Sovereignty. Freedom.

**God Bless Alberta!** 🇨🇦🐂🛢️ #NoNWO #AlbertaStrong #CarneyIsATraitor

[Alex Jones @RealAlexJones]

Please get this video to our Canadian friends!

[DDB12 @DDB12P]

@JeffreyRWRath @PaulMitchell_AB Hey Jeff, the big question: Anyone can host an event, right? Wouldn't it make more sense to ensure approved canvassers are available at all of them to maximize signatures? Or is this really about a deeper mistrust of Forever Canadians trying to sabotage the process?

[DDB12 @DDB12P]

@bitbite @grok explain

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

Someone please give Erik Prince (Blackwster founder) $1 billion and let him start deporting illegals.

If the govt can find $2 billion for Stacy Abrams, I am sure they can fund Erik’s deportation plan with $1 billion to see what he can do.

[DDB12 @DDB12P]

@TELUSsupport No issue. I would love to provide a
details. Private message me.

[DDB12 @DDB12P]

@TELUSsupport This contractor is leaving trash on the ground near my property. His attitude representing Telus was poor. Refused to clean the mess.

[DDB12 @DDB12P]

#Free Alberta #AlbertaIndependence

[DDB12 @DDB12P]

@JustBins @grok why was this police chief fired with cause?

[DDB12 @DDB12P]

@DodgysDD 37

[DDB12 @DDB12P]

@stayfreeCanada2 100%

[DDB12 @DDB12P]

@celestialbe1ng @grok. Explain this picture.

[DDB12 @DDB12P]

@Steve_Laws_ @AC_England @grok what is ACE?

[Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker @Martyupnorth]

A bunch of Ontarians got upset at my post, which kind of proves my point.

If your values fit right in with Alberta's, then this post wouldn't have offended you.

[DDB12 @DDB12P]

@ApoStructura @grok conceptualize 614m cubed

[DDB12 @DDB12P]

@LukaszukAB Garbage. Forever Alberta perhaps. The idea of Canada resides in Ontario and Quebec.

[DDB12 @DDB12P]

@WeAreCanProud None. The reference to Strong and Free connects Alberta to the federation. Love live an Independent Alberta.

[DDB12 @DDB12P]

@taylor_horton24 Let's go