Alberta premier’s request for separation referendum question approval rebuffed

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Greyghoster@aussie.zone · 19 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Sounds like a billionaires ploy to create an oil state that they can take and run as a kingdom.

The tourism ads write themselves:

“Alberta: it’s Louisiana with Healthcare”

“Alberta: it’s Venezuela without good food”

“Alberta: it’s Saudi Arabia with a shittier climate”

ramchak@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I wouldn't count on the good healthcare to survive if Alberta leaves Canada

Alberta is actively destroying their healthcare now. It likely won't survive Smith's term.

I'm not Canadian but I lived there for a few years. I went back to my home country, but I still follow Canadian politics closely.

Calgary has the worst traffic fatalities rate in the country:

Alberta has the worst measles epidemic in North America:

Premier Danielle Smith publically criticized vaccines:

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If Alberta politicians are too incompetent to manage traffic safety or prevent measles, what makes people think they can manage a new country...???

No offense, but this would be a Failed State on day 1.

She would beg Trump to come annex Alberta on day 1.

How about amend it so that if it fails, she ends up in prison?

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