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Blatantly funded by the US. Where are all the "foreign interference!!!" Conservatives now? How is this legal??

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 minutes ago

This is like, cut and dry, 100% treason. What the fuck?

[–] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 27 points 8 hours ago

This is treason and should be prosecuted. There is no justice until they are behind bars.

[–] SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 34 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (3 children)

Not going to happen. Plus, I've read that most of those that do want to separate don't want join the US.

Even IF the people of Alberta vote in favour of leaving Canada it still has to be approved by Parliament, and that is not happening at this time with the current seat counts for each party.

I have lived in Calgary, Alberta for over 20 years. I don't know a single person who would want to leave Canada. I also know that Alberta would not stand a chance alone. We DEPEND on the federal government for funding and other Provinces for goods. We're land locked and have next to no manufacturing.

[–] sixpaque@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

I believe behind the scenes, it's got the smell of Trump.

[–] AGM@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

Votes aren't looking like they're going to mean anything in the US anymore. Don't be too confident they're going to respect any vote in Alberta.

[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 26 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Plus, I’ve read that most of those that do want to separate don’t want join the US.

That's the fun part, once the US separates you from Canada, you don't get a choice about whether you want to join the US anymore, because your collapsing economy leaves you no choice. Divide and conquer, literally.

[–] SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Hopefully those that would vote to separate know this ...

IF on the off chance it happens there will be a mass exodus. I'd be moving to British Columbia in a heart beat.

[–] excursion22@piefed.ca 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Look at Brexit. Many people look no further than what's on their Facebook feeds, making it quite easy to sway a referendum that fucks over a whole populace.

[–] digitalFatteh@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

It amazes me that after seeing that complete shitshow that was Brexit that provincial separatists are like “Yea, this is exactly what we want and need to work towards”. Bottom of the cesspool bottom feeders the lot of them.

Je dirige tout autant mes critiques acerbes vers les séparatistes québécois.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 82 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

You all wannabe Americans? Go ahead and move to the US. Apply for citizenship. No one is stopping you. You're doing the rest of us a favor.

But, you don't get to take the land with you.

[–] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 hour ago

We should have some citizenship exchange program so they can swap with those being persecuted in US for not being male white rich.

[–] III@lemmy.world 17 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

No one is stopping you

To be fair, even if in the US legally, ICE is stopping you. And then shipping you off to some other foreign country's jail.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 9 points 7 hours ago

In this case, I have no problem with that.

[–] RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca 45 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

We could start by enforcing our laws. Foreign interference is everywhere, and we've just ignored it for decades. Eg, the US funds the Frasier Institute and no one makes any comment about this. Half of our media is owned by them. The convoy was subsidized by US funding. I don't believe for a moment that the UCP and/or its members aren't awash in US corporate bribes and cash promises.

Our country is under threat and no one seems to do a damn thing about it. Why doesn't any politician discuss this? Poilievre talks about Chinese interference, where is the concern for this interference by the US, very clearly our enemy??!

[–] delial@lemmy.sdf.org 55 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

This is an ongoing operation by the CIA to Balkanize Canada. Canadians need to wake the fuck up.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 8 points 4 hours ago

Luckily they suck at it.

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 11 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

If they play this game, watch the west coast and northeast of the US join Canada.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 9 points 4 hours ago

Washington, Oregon, and California would make nice Canadian provinces.

[–] RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca 13 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Alberta separatists never shut up about running a pipeline through Washington to the west coast.

If the West Coast went to Canada after Alberta separated, that would be the ultimate poetic justice. Alberta would be back negotiating with Canada but now as a foreign state with all the animosity of a recent separation. I'd almost like to see it if it didn't mean massive political upheaval.

[–] eightpix@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

Wexit is like Brexit but way more petty, stupid, and pointless. An independent Alberta couldn't defend themselves against ICE stationed in Montana, let alone the US military proper.

And, since America is taking custody of oilfields in this hemisphere under the Monroe Doctrine, the Tarsands are a likely target. Danielle Smith better get comfy cosy with the idea of living in a detention facility, charged with "insulting the Dear Leader under her breath" (slander) or "being a woman in power" (blasphemy).

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 11 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

They can vote themselves out if they want.

They don't get the land, though; they trade their passport for a plane ticket.

That's the only deal they get. C'est bon?

[–] RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca 10 points 7 hours ago

I would be happy if separation means individual separation from Canada...they turn in their passport and get a ride over the border.

But the US doesn't want them they want the resources.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

Can we just ship the dinks that agreed with it? The rest of us like where we live.

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 15 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

I propose a border swap: USA gets Alberta, Canada gets Washington State

(Please I beg you get me out of here)

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I think Oregon and California would want to come too.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 hours ago

And that, my friends, is the art of the deal.

[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 32 points 11 hours ago

Kick these traitors out of Canada or prison. Carney needs to do something about this

#treason

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Trade it for California?

I get that they are being hypocrites, but surely it would only make it easier for US states to secede.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Can California Washington and Hawaii maybe replace them….asking for a friend?

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Hawaii is a nice suggestion

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 points 54 minutes ago

I want Oregon too.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 4 points 8 hours ago

Divide et impera. It's the same across Europe and NA- almost as if there is a concerted effort funded by someone who wants to divide us and make us fight each other and succumb to internal strife instead of attacking the guy in the mask twirling his mustache behind that onion shaped cathedral over there.

If it happens they will die like the rest of the invaders.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 hours ago

The AB op is underway.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone -1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

You keep using that word - I’m not sure it means what you think it does.

[–] RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Ok sedition.

But I prefer to call them traitors because that's what they are.

Does that work for you?

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 1 hour ago

What? No, “independent” - actually in the original post.

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