I dunno, this is a bit too surface-y a take on what Alberta’s been up to lately.
Danielle Smith is an x-oil industry lobbyist, and is overtly supporting the separatist movement in that province. Even them pushing forward with the whole petition for a referendum, when the courts had already said “stop, you can’t just leave Canada with the First Nation situation unresolved – you gotta pause the separatist stuff till you sort out how FN treaties/rights would get handled”… was intentional, and designed to help drive wedges between different factions/destabilize the region further. Ie. Now the separatists can go to their base and be all “The courts don’t support us! We can’t trust the courts! Only Our Dear Leader can save us!”, and “Evil First Nations, stopping the will of the ‘majority’ of people!”.
Going explicitly against mundane standards, and drumming them up into headlines, is part of sowing discord and animosity between different demos. Even something as stupid as bike lanes, is one where they’re aiming to get a negative response from progressives / other provinces in Canada, so that they can again beat the drum of “Make Alberta Great Again!”.
I think Texans are a bit more like… “Make America Texan” than “Make Texas join Mexico”. So slightly diff situation.
I dunno, this is a bit too surface-y a take on what Alberta’s been up to lately.
Danielle Smith is an x-oil industry lobbyist, and is overtly supporting the separatist movement in that province. Even them pushing forward with the whole petition for a referendum, when the courts had already said “stop, you can’t just leave Canada with the First Nation situation unresolved – you gotta pause the separatist stuff till you sort out how FN treaties/rights would get handled”… was intentional, and designed to help drive wedges between different factions/destabilize the region further. Ie. Now the separatists can go to their base and be all “The courts don’t support us! We can’t trust the courts! Only Our Dear Leader can save us!”, and “Evil First Nations, stopping the will of the ‘majority’ of people!”.
Going explicitly against mundane standards, and drumming them up into headlines, is part of sowing discord and animosity between different demos. Even something as stupid as bike lanes, is one where they’re aiming to get a negative response from progressives / other provinces in Canada, so that they can again beat the drum of “Make Alberta Great Again!”.
I think Texans are a bit more like… “Make America Texan” than “Make Texas join Mexico”. So slightly diff situation.