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.
As I understand it, they also don’t get to take any treaty or federal land with them. And they don’t seem to realize they’d have to take their percentage of the national debt, develop their own currency system, etc. (unless they want to be a US territory, because no way they’ll get to be a state)
And, where the hell are they going to go? Danielle wants private health insurance. Bye-bye 80% of the population who needs health care, and will be losing their homes to get it.