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Alberta Separatist 🌾🛢️🐄💰⛓️‍💥
Striving imperfectly toward reason and logic

[R @rtbtrapese]

Seems to me that great pain met by great hope can inspire great change.

The last 10 years have definitely been great pain.

But now we're met with great hope.

Great change awaits us now.

#Alberta #AlbertaIndependence

[Martin A. Armstrong @ArmstrongEcon]

While the referendum result suggests a strong desire to remain in Canada, the underlying issues that fueled the separatist sentiment remain unresolved.

It just becomes a ticking time bomb that ultimately will explode, as it even did in the USSR.

The vote does not eliminate the possibility of future discussions about Alberta’s autonomy or its relationship with the federal government.

[R @rtbtrapese]

@PierrePoilievre For growing up here, you sure sold us out. Go home Pierre.

[Rise Of Alberta @RiseOfAlberta]

What an independent Alberta gains:

✅ Full control over $10T+ in natural resources
✅ Direct trade negotiations with the U.S.
✅ Leverage with Canada over market access
✅ Control over immigration
✅ Control over taxation
✅ Control over our own laws and future

What Alberta loses:

❌ Being a tax colony for Eastern Canada
❌ liberal policies imposed from Ottawa
❌ Elections decided before Alberta finishes voting
❌ Sending billions away every year
❌ Politicians we can’t vote out controlling our future

[Martin Pelletier @MPelletierCIO]

Whenever I post concerns over Canadian housing and its large premium to other markets especially to the US I get a plethora of people aggressively, elbows up, defending it.

Residential real estate has become a core part of our culture and identity. So much so that our regulators have allowed many large investment firms to allocate the majority of client positions into MICs and private real estate. So much so that large parts of the population wanted to shut down oil and gas and resource development. So much so that our central bank has blown out our entire gold reserve. So much so that our central bank are keeping rates low and support a weaker Canadian dollar. So much so that we flooded our country with immigration the like of which has never been done before. So much so that our new PM has said they will buy real estate to support developers.

When will it finally end? Housing is a place to build a family and a community. It is a non-productive asset. It isn’t something to build an economy on.

Wake up.

[R @rtbtrapese]

@MarkJCarney $480,000+ per new "affordable" home...? Ivory tower got your view a little skewed?

[R @rtbtrapese]

@Polymarket Failure by both parents and children. Very fixable though.

[R @rtbtrapese]

@dckurek Damien, independence is about protecting what we've built.

[R @rtbtrapese]

@VotetoStayAB @WBrettWilson @WBrettWilson is not for the people. He is for profiting from our decline as we wither away.

[Rise Of Alberta @RiseOfAlberta]

The UAE became one of the world's wealthiest countries with ~100B barrels of oil, 10M people and no personal income tax.

Alberta has ~160B barrels, 5M people and nearly 50% top combined income tax.

Alberta's problem isn't wealth.

It's Ottawa.

Independence is the solution.

[Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker @Martyupnorth]

That's the part that most people forget about.

[R @rtbtrapese]

Human beings have both intrinsic and extrinsic value.

And they are not the same thing.

Do not confuse them.

[R @rtbtrapese]

Learn and strive to thrive in spite of the masses.

If you need everyone else to join your cause before you can thrive, you're missing out.

[R @rtbtrapese]

@MarkJCarney So you're stealing more from me?

[Rise Of Alberta @RiseOfAlberta]

Pierre Poilievre came to Calgary to sell nostalgia. Alberta needs reality.

Pierre gave a polished speech about Canadian unity.

He talked about veterans, prairie farms, the Stampede, and the promise of Confederation.

It was emotional, patriotic, well delivered.

But it did not answer the central question:

Why should Alberta stay in a country structurally built to extract from us?

Pierre says Alberta’s problems are “easily fixable.”

They are not.

If they were, they would have been fixed decades ago.

Alberta has voted Conservative, sent MPs to Ottawa, stayed loyal, and paid the bills.

And still, from 2007 to 2022, Albertans sent roughly $244.6 billion more to Ottawa than we received back.

That is not a temporary policy mistake.

That is the business model of Confederation.

Pierre frames the problem as bad Liberal policy.

But the deeper problem is the structure of Canada itself.

The Liberals need Alberta’s money.

The Conservatives need Alberta politically.

Without Alberta, the Conservative path to government becomes almost impossible.

Pierre can sympathize with Alberta’s grievances, but he cannot confront the solution.

The Conservative Party is not designed to represent Alberta first.

It is designed to win federal elections.

That means Alberta’s views must always be softened and repackaged for Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic Canada.

Pierre says we can fix this in Ottawa.

But equalization is constitutionally entrenched.

Dismantling it would require constitutional change, and the provinces that profit from Alberta’s wealth would have to agree to give it up.

Why would they?

That is the trap.

Alberta is told to work harder, pay more, sacrifice more, and then politely ask the rest of Canada to stop taking so much.

That is not partnership.

That is dependency dressed up as unity.

Pierre said we should “lock arms” with other provinces.

But Alberta has locked arms for decades.

We locked arms while our energy sector was attacked, our pipelines blocked, and our wealth redistributed.

At some point, “lock arms” just means “stay in line.”

Pierre says Alberta needs different policies, not a different country.

But Alberta independence exists because more Albertans have realized Ottawa is not the disease.

Ottawa is the symptom.

The disease is Confederation itself.

A system where Alberta creates the wealth, carries the risk, takes the abuse, and still has no power to stop the extraction.

A system where our future depends on convincing voters thousands of kilometres away to develop our economy.

The issue is not whether Albertans love their neighbours, respect veterans, or appreciate the sacrifices that built this country.

We do.

The issue is whether the country they built still works for Alberta.

The answer is increasingly obvious.

It does not.

Pierre asked Albertans not to give up on Canada.

But what if Canada gave up on Alberta first?

What if Confederation has been replaced by a system where Alberta’s role is to produce, pay, and be quiet?

That is why this movement is growing.

Not because Albertans hate Canada.

But because Albertans have learned from experience.

Federal promises expire. Respect for Alberta is always negotiable. Conservative governments slow the damage but do not fix the structure. Liberal governments see Alberta as a revenue source. The rest of Canada will always vote in its own interest.

So Alberta must finally do the same.

Pierre came to make the case for a stronger Alberta within a united Canada.

But he never explained how Alberta escapes the fiscal trap, how equalization ends, or why the provinces profiting from it would ever vote to stop.

The speech was beautiful.

The argument was empty.

Alberta does not need another emotional appeal to stay.

Alberta needs power.

Alberta needs control over its wealth, its economy, its resources, and its future.

If Canada’s structure makes that impossible, the answer is not another federal promise.

The answer is independence.

[Keith Wilson @ikwilson]

Alberta should be the most affordable, opportunity-rich place in North America.

Instead, young Albertans are priced out of homes, families are squeezed, and taxpayers are being asked to take on more debt because Ottawa made private investment nearly impossible.

Alberta can do better. https://t.co/70SdJ6Dt1R

[Rise Of Alberta @RiseOfAlberta]

You cannot protect Alberta’s quality of life without controlling immigration.

You cannot control immigration without independence.

[Rise Of Alberta @RiseOfAlberta]

Taxes Albertans will stop paying after independence:

-Federal income tax.
-Federal carbon tax.
-Federal fuel tax.
-GST.
-Equalization.
-Ottawa bureaucracy.
-Liberal debt interest.
-Federal “climate” levies.
-Billions sent east every year.

Keep Alberta’s money in Alberta.

[R @rtbtrapese]

Most verbiage from politicians is noise.

Look for the signal beyond the noise.

[R @rtbtrapese]

@Bratt_world Context matters.

[R @rtbtrapese]

Federalists are looking to the past.

Separatists are looking to the future.

Nostalgia won't pay the bills.

#AlbertaIndependence