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By Senator Paula Simons

So I’m calling on us to do something un-Canadian: to put aside our habitual self-deprecation and stand up for the country we love—and reject the idea of a sovereign Alberta whose founding principles seem to be miserliness, xenophobia and transphobia. We need to raise our voices to denounce the dark fantasy of a landlocked, petulant petrostate dedicated to hoarding wealth, denouncing immigrants, denying climate change, spurning vaccines, protecting patriarchy and endangering queer kids. Because Alberta’s current crop of separatists don’t just want to leave Canada. They seem to want to opt out of the 21st century entirely.

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[–] ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 days ago (20 children)

I'm relatively new to Canadian politics, since I'm a relatively new citizen here. So I'm right to say that Quebec and Alberta both want to seperate and be independent countries, or Alberta wants to be part of the US?

[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 30 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Sort of. Québec has pretty much always had a separatist movement as a result of the unique history and culture and, while I think separating would be a disaster for everyone, I can respect it.

Alberta's separatist movement is a far right idea that's only recently become a topic of conversation and I am 100% sure it's being pushed heavily and mainly by the US and the oil industry to try and destabalise Canada. As far as I'm aware, very few people in Alberta actually want to leave

[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 13 points 6 days ago (3 children)

It's being pushed heavily by a very very small amount of the population. They just get grandiose and outsized attention from social media forums, and the media. They scream loudly, but largely at clouds. The vast majority of Albertans do not want this at all, the problem being (and it's a larger worldwide pandemic if you will), citizens also have major apathy issues where they just kind of shrug it off and won't actually do anything about it. Hence the government acting like it is, and cuddling up to these quislings, whom they need desperately in a bid to stay in power.

The entire western world just needs to grow up. Social media, especially Facebook, needs to be set on fire if they will not do anything about the disinformation or the bots. Foreign intervention and interference via social media is a new and very present threat, probably one of the larger macro threats the world faces.

[–] silvadinlabop@lemmy.cafe 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The entire western world? I mean, have you heard what the eastern world is saying and doing? It’s basically the same shit equally—we just hear about it less. Don’t fall for the Lemmy biased “west bad” propaganda… every side is bad.

[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I mean I'm here for that, everyone just needs to grow up.

Me? Personally I'm cheering for the comet at this point.

[–] silvadinlabop@lemmy.cafe 2 points 4 days ago

I can get onboard team comet.

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