Alberta separatists said Monday they have formally submitted almost 302,000 signatures to try to trigger a referendum on the province leaving Canada.
The group needed 178,000 signatures to force the province to consider such a vote.
The question of separation could go on a provincewide ballot as early as October, as Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has said she would move forward if enough names are gathered and verified. Smith has said she personally does not support the oil-rich province leaving Canada.
A “yes” vote would not trigger independence automatically. Negotiations with the federal government would have to take place and Daniel Béland, a political science professor at McGill University in Montreal, said some Indigenous groups who are already using the courts to prevent an independence referendum would use venues including the courts to stop independence from happening.
what exactly is their rationale here? “lets be a tiny country, that will make us real independent and free and totally not a plaything next to the big ol’ US of A”
(inb4 “Alberta not tiny”: by population, yes. 4M people is tiny)
They wouldn’t even be a plaything, the US would walk in the next day and take it. Why wouldn’t they? No military, no international relations, and a bunch of oil.
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About the population of Oklahoma so yeah small. They wouldn’t stay independent for long. US would take control. And instead of universal healthcare they can have for profit care.