• Tiger666@lemmy.ca
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    6 days ago

    Ben Shapiro said he would put our prime minister into a work camp after they invaded and subjugated us.

    He is a Jewish orthodox maga fascist.

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    Is there no way to get rid of her? Especially now, this goes far beyond “Alberta being more like the states” to a step below out right treason.

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    Can’t or won’t run on solar, wind, and batteries? Alberta is widely regarded as an effective province for solar, and southern Alberta already has great wind options.

    Smith is actively working against renewables. I could understand if we tried to expand either and it didn’t pan out but it’s getting stopped before it starts.

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    As much as I wish she’d be investigated for treason, I don’t think there’s even a snowball’s chance she’d get a conviction. Instead, I hope she’d get a proper investigation on corruption. There’s plenty of evidence of that already, and tons of it is hard written into the policies she’s tried to put into law.

  • 🇨🇦 tunetardis@lemmy.ca
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    As much as I hate Doug Ford, every time he does something that pisses me off, Danielle Smith is right there like “hold my Kentucky Bourbon…”

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    export tariff on Alberta oil used to fund pipelines in Canada. Dictated. If Smith successfully gets a referendum, then we keep the money and tax Alberta oil. Another mistake of our slow transition to renewables, is the energy insecurity that occurs with fuel extortion. Solar (and batteries/electrolysis) has massively more lifetime energy content that justifies transportation costs without capital investments in dead ender energy, or tolerating politicians desperate to destroy planet by lying that it will be good for us.

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      Let’s say that a referendum passed, how would that even work? Found this Supreme Court remark from Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin in 2014 when I was searching around for an answer of “is that even possible?”, apparently the Feds referred that question to the scoc during the Quebec referendums in the 90s, (see section 5) and the answer seems to be, certainly not unilaterally (I’ll read this in detail when I have a chance). The also touch on treaty rights which is my question as well, Alberta is like all treaty land, how would the indigenous land rights be handled? On top of that, as far as I recall there’s a tonne of crown land in Alberta, again, how would that be handled?

      I don’t have answers to these, just something I think about when these rumblings come up. I have my doubts about the actual popularity of an Alberta sovereignty movement, and frankly Canada is stronger with them than without, like with Québec it would be a loss to the federation.

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        You’re right that secession can’t be a unilateral declaration of “we keep all federal assets”. I don’t believe that native treaties are as difficult as they are made out to be. = “they keep all rights they enjoyed from previous federal government” seems possible.

        A fair secession process/referendum should also include a 2nd/3rd referendum for counties/cities to declare their own independence from province, and then join another country. Where humanist principle of self determination is being invoked in secession, its humanist principle all the way down.