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Many of us are not who you would expect as "hard core"
I am nearing 60 years old, lived all my life in Alberta since I was 2 years old. I am also Metis. I worked hard since I was 14. I just paid off my mortgage. I am a mother and a grandmother. I am a christian with strong family values. I have lived through both Trudeaus and the damage they did to my province. I had a glimmer of hope when it looked like Pierre would become PM. When he didn't, that was the start of my lean to separate. Carney only had a minority so some checks and balances were still still possible. Then Carney manufactured an illegitimate majority and all that disappeared. Basically, shutting down committees where the opposition can hold him to account.
Then the requirements he put on Alberta to have a pipeline was the real kicker. If all of that was not bad enough, we have a PM who is trying to over reach into every little aspect of our lives from what I watch, what I say, what I believe, what I eat, what I drive, how I heat my home etc. Coming soon, he will be controlling my access to cash. He will never stop. Then there is the seemingly endless foreign aid, increasing Canada's debt to insane levels, the liberal immigration policy, gun control while being soft on crime. I also have zero ambition to hate the US and even less ambition to become part of the EU (entirely absurd)
I have become convinced that the east and the west are so far apart in every way that confederation will never work anymore. Canada has become only what Quebec, Ontario, and the Atlantic wants and needs. Elections are useless, we cannot vote our way out of this because before our votes are even counted, we were hearing the results. How is that fair or representative of our vote?
Something has to change and right now, separating seems like the only way for many like me
@NeakerOle@BaronVonMiniks@globeandmail I live in an Alberta "town" with under 35,000 people & almost ALL businesses (franchises especially) use current or former TFWs (now permanent residents)
Their "Hire Local" campaign is a joke
Lived in 3 different Provinces, worked in 5 different Provinces & have been through all 10 Provinces. I have not been in the Territories yet. I have ridden a motorcycle in all but 3 Provinces (NFLD, NS & Manitoba)