Meanwhile in Alberta, Canada, They Just Gave Carney the One-Finger Salute

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ey-just-gave-carney-the-one-finger-salute-n4952502 

If Alberta could vote in U.S. elections, President Donald Trump would
have won in a landslide there all three times he ran for the White
House. Alberta is one of Canada’s 10 provinces and the closest thing the
country has to a red state. 

Calgary and Edmonton are its major cities, but it’s not the cities that
define it. It’s rich in natural resources like oil, natural gas,
minerals, timber, and more. A western province, it’s defined by striking
beauty and a character similar to America’s own western heritage:
self-sufficiency, rugged individualism, hard work, and an appreciation
for freedom. 

That affinity for freedom is what’s putting Alberta in the news these
days. 

Do you recall how Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney has been saddling
up to China to score points with the world’s communists and fascists? 


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?? HOLY SH*T!   PRIME MINISTER MARK CARNEY JUST SAID IT OUT LOUD ??

“I believe the progress that we have made and the partnership (with
China) sets us up well for the New… World… Order.” 

Not rushed.
Not off the cuff.

He pauses between every word - New… World… Order - like Show more

https://twitter.com/i/status/2012007975158677940

While he’s been doing that, a persistent group of Canadians in Alberta
has just crossed the threshold needed to put a question on the ballot in
the form of a referendum. The question, which may be posed to Alberta
voters, will center on whether they want to be part of Canada any
longer. 


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?? BREAKING: 301,620 signatures have officially been announced for the
Alberta independence petition. 

That is far beyond the required threshold to trigger the Alberta
independence vote on October 19th. 

A massive day for the Alberta Independence movement.

More to the point, a growing organization called Stay Free Alberta (SFA)
has said it collected 301,620 signatures for a petition to trigger the
process of putting a referendum before voters that would lead to
Alberta’s separation from Canada. The SFA organizers drove a convoy to
the Alberta elections office with boxes and boxes of signed petitions.
The group only needed to collect 178,000 signatures, and it vastly
exceeded that number. Alberta’s population is just shy of 5 million
people. 

SFA supporters accompanied the petitions to the elections office and
staged an impromptu rally, waving their Alberta flags as the petitions
were unloaded and delivered to election officials. 

The head of SFA, Mitch Sylvestre, spoke to his assembled supporters,
reading from a letter to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, “This process
shows that Albertans are engaged and this is an issue people want to
have a say on….We look forward to your government receiving this clear
expression of the democratic will of Albertans and advancing the next
steps.” 

What are those next steps?

The first order of business is to verify all those signatures to make
sure that enough real people signed them to hit that threshold of
178,000. But hold on, eh? 

Not unlike America, Canada has its share of activist judges, and one of
them stopped this process in its tracks as she now gives weight to a
court challenge from a group of Canadian Indians called Alberta First
Nations. They maintain that this petition, which completely adheres to
and is informed by Canadian law, violates their rights under a federal
treaty with the native population. 

Canada’s CBC network reported that “Smith has previously said she'd put
the question to a referendum if enough signatures are collected and
verified.” 

Jeff Rath, who is a lawyer for SFA, told the CBC, "As far as we're
concerned, whatever the court does or whatever Elections Alberta does at
this point is meaningless.” He said that, for political reasons, Smith
cannot ignore the size of this petition and the will of the people. 

Well, it wouldn’t be Canada if the waters couldn’t be muddied any
further, now would it? Another group called Forever Canadian circulated
a petition of its own, and it has already had its signatures verified.
No protest from Alberta First Nations on that front. 

That petition drive reportedly collected 404,293 signatures and is
intended to pressure Canada to decide, as a matter of policy, that
Alberta must remain part of Canada. But petitions aren’t votes. So when
you have one group petitioning to put something on the ballot, you can’t
use another petition to silence the original petition…or can you? 

I thought the purpose of a petition is simply to show there’s enough
support to put something to a vote. The voters will get the final say.
So, if Forever Canadian wants to win on this issue, wouldn’t it have to
win at the ballot box, assuming, of course, that the powers that be
allow Albertans to vote? 

Let's get crazy and assume that eventually the First Nations group loses
its baseless legal challenge. If that happens, Alberta’s elections
office will then commence with signature verification on the petitions.
Tied to this, it will do random samplings to determine whether those who
signed the petition gave accurate information and actually live in
Alberta. There's also some question on how voter lists are used in this
process, and whether everyone on the lists are actual citizens and
voters. 

Amazingly, Canada actually cares about whether there are fake names on
voter lists. Did you ever think the left would care about verifying to
make sure that people on voter lists are actually voters? 

Apparently, all you have to do to get leftists to want verified voter
lists is circulate a petition that could actually lead to secession.
Still, Rath isn’t worried about the hurdles they have to jump through.
He told the CBC that SFA’s process “was pristine from start to
finish….Every one of our canvassers was badged and numbered. Every
person signing the petition had ID.” 

I dunno. I’d like to think this will happen, but I live in America and
have seen how the left operates here. I know it isn’t any better in
Canada. The whole country is to the left of John Fetterman. 

Leftists are creative when they want to undermine, sabotage, and steal
your democracy. I’m not holding my breath here. But that won’t stop me
from daydreaming about Alberta as the 51st state of the good ole USA.
You know Alberta would vote red and get some Electoral College
representation. That’s enough for me to ponder the possibilities over a
cup of coffee. 

Just think of it. We'd get the Edmonton Oilers. We’d have access to more
energy resources than we could handle, drastically reducing America’s
dependence on the Middle East for oil. And it would weaken Canada’s
leftist regime’s geopolitical hand in Ottawa. Carney and his successors
would be forced to do some real groveling in Washington if he ever lost
Alberta. 

I’m about to go start a fresh pot. How do you like your coffee? 


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