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> this would not at all directly advance their goals of getting more of their oil product to tidewater, one of their main political grievances

It's a manufactured grievance. Alberta's been pumping and selling more oil than at any point in its history under Trudeau's liberals.

https://economicdashboard.alberta.ca/dashboard/oil-productio...

Trace this separatism bullshit back, and you'll find the fingers of the American right fully entwined in all this.

What all the separatists fail to be aware of is that 98% of Alberta is treaty land. It can't secede as a land-locked province, it could only secede as a bunch of fragmented municipalities surrounded by First Nations.

The only actual way towards it would be invasion and annexation by the United States. I hope that anyone looking forward to that timeline is also looking forward to IEDs.



The issue is not selling more oil but where the profit goes. I work for the Alberta Government, I know a person who works for the Ministry of Energy and Minerals who processes land use rights applications for oil and gas activities. Most of the profit obtained from selling the aforementioned rights goes to the federal government (about 85%), and only about 15% gets reinvested into the provincial department




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