Granna Bytes: Whoops! Another Big Shoe Dropping

Anna von Reitz

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Anna considers what an Alberta independence initiative could mean for resource ownership, trade and relations between western Canadian provinces and the federal government. She explores the practical challenges of acting alone and the possibilities of neighbouring provinces choosing a shared direction. Her reflection also considers a future relationship with American States within her framework. Throughout, her emphasis is on weighing economic, geographical and security questions when considering possible political changes.

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Anna connects the independence discussion with resource revenue and federal relations.
She considers the practical importance of neighbouring provinces and trade routes.
She explores possible future arrangements and the choices they would involve.

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By Anna Von Reitz

Alberta, that big oil-bearing Province in the middle of Canada, just took the first step toward a unilateral declaration of independence, applying the Universal Right of Self-Declaration.

Why does this matter?

Alberta has spent years being tongue-lashed by the Canadian "federal" government in Ottawa about environmental issues, while the bulk of the profit has been going to Ottawa and being squandered there and elsewhere in Canada. Not Alberta.

Alberta has been treated like the Ugly Red-Haired Stepchild, while Alberta has been bringing home the bacon for the whole country.

And it finally snapped.

Ottawa ran its mouth and played stingy for too long. The attacks on the Canadian truckers who stood up during the pandemic sealed the fate of the Ottawa Government, along with its role in enslaving Canadians with purloined birth certificates, labor bonds and land titles.

Here are the key points every American needs to take home: (1) Alberta becomes a land-locked wildcard if it sues for independence and does so without other key provinces doing the same thing; (2) Canada's whole economy doesn't work without Alberta; (3) Nobody knows what to expect if other provinces -- Manitoba, British Columbia, Saskatchewan also follow suit and claim independence.

Alberta could sue to become the fifty-first State of the Union, and our American Government could enroll it as such. Trump's Territorial United States can only give it a franchise functioning as a territorial state-of-state.

If we added four or five western Canadian provinces to The United States as independent nation-states it would greatly empower everyone concerned and provide very attractive elements of security and trade cooperation that wouldn't be possible otherwise.

Whether independence for Alberta is good news or bad news for us, we sympathize with Alberta's desire to be something more than a convenient resource extraction device for Ottawa. Resource "equalization" has too often been code for "steal from Alberta" and leave the people there freezing in the dark.

Granna

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