It's All About the Loonies: The Conspiracy to Keep Alberta Captive
The Fix Is in to Defeat Alberta Independence
(For those persons unfamiliar with Canuck Coinage, a LOONIE is money it has no bearing on mental stability and has a whole different meaning up there. - DD)
The Fix Is in to Defeat Alberta Independence
(Brownstone Institute) - Last week, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced a referendum for October 19. It will ask Albertans a slate of policy and constitutional questions. Independence, she said the next day, will be added to the ballot if the requisite number of signatures is met in the petition drive, which is likely. Albertans will get their chance to say if they want to leave Canada. But Canadian federalists can relax. The Alberta premier is one of them. The referendum is the fix to defeat Alberta independence. It will undermine the separatist cause and split the independence vote.
Smith’s referendum will ask whether the province should exercise more control over immigration, social programs, and voter identification. And whether Alberta should pursue constitutional amendments. Give provinces the power to appoint judges to superior courts? Abolish the unelected Senate? Grant provinces the right to opt out of federal programs in areas of provincial jurisdiction without losing federal funding? Give provincial laws priority over federal ones when they conflict?
These referendum questions lead nowhere. Alberta already has constitutional authority over the policy questions. It could exercise more control in these areas tomorrow if it wanted. There is no realistic prospect of amending the Canadian constitution on controversial matters. Smith and her advisors must know that.
Smith has repeatedly said that her…
It is always interesting that the same people that remind us daily that they hate us and want us dead, and how dependent we are on them, will also threaten to kill us if we say we want to go our own way.
They better hold on to their hand me downs and keep them hidden cuz they are gonna need em. All the best hunting in the world and they are fuckin that up for everyone who really loves to get away from people, we should just load up a couple trucks and take the place