Nenshi urges Alberta premier to cancel separation vote amid Canada-U.S. trade war
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-ndp-leader-calls-postpone-referendum-9.7321280
Nenshi urges Alberta premier to cancel separation vote amid Canada-U.S. trade war
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-ndp-leader-calls-postpone-referendum-9.7321280
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Let them have their vote, it will be no, then we can show the world it was a futile effort. After that, find the traitors and prosecute them.
I appreciate Nenshi’s positioning here, and I don’t think he says this if he thought there was a chance Smith might actually do it, but as a die hard Stay voter, I want this vote to happen. We’re never gonna have a stronger tide of national unity than we do right now, and delaying or cancelling the vote will only allow the seperatists to continue their cause, emboldened by what they would assuredly receive as getting screwed out of a vote.
If the west coast pipeline fails, if the trade talks resolve in a manner that’s seen as a losing deal for Alberta, if we enter the new year and Carney brings the hammer down on the healthcare changes (lol, but a man can dream), then we see the seperatists get a stronger case.
Smith made her bed, we’re months deep into non-campaigns on both sides, and frankly the polling shows this is *just* a question of turnout. Let’s fucking get this over with.
Unless the polling is massively massively wrong I really don’t see a valid reason, the whole thing could kill the issue for a generation and let us move on.
It’s pretty obvious a bet by Smith to kill the issue.
Good for Nenshi for calling out this nonsense. It’s about time. If seperatists want a refrendum, form a government and have one. Don’t have fefderalists organize one for you.
But this would only help the separatist cause. Pro-Canada sentiment in Alberta is peaking right now. Let the separatists, and their doting Premier, get massacred.