One hundred and seventy-seven thousand people.

That’s roughly 3.5 per cent of Alberta’s population. It’s also the amount of signatures that will be needed to force a separation referendum

It can’t be that hard to take advantage of this and get a hundred other random referendums. What else should they get everyone to vote on?

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      Suprised nobody had claimed its all rigged, and election fraud yet… although lets be clear, if the politicians said it the people would have followed. Scary times dealing with a cult of fascism.

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        Overheard two ladies in Cambodian Tire talking about how the election was stolen and clearly a fraud because “The liberals got themselves over 26 million votes!”

        Lady, there are only 28 million eligible electors in Canada. If we had 93% voter turnout just for the liberals… I mean, shit.

        Bible belt region Onterrible btw.

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    We need to stop desperately pretending that unity is salvageable. Conditions for Alberta secession must include free travel, even if they associate as US territory, and Calgary/Edmonton and any surrounding “subsecession” rights as city states or Canada. Most of Alberta is public land, with continuous regions that could support transportation. While ownership is Albertan, that it was a gift from Canada under presumption of provincehood/alliance is an issue of contention, that would certainly justify a corridor of Canada.

    Any federal investment in Alberta’s dead ender energy market/export access needs to explicitly generate federal revenues, with ownership that persists through any secession. But during any BS divisiveness process, focus federal investment elsewhere.