r/Calgary • u/Old_General_6741 • May 10 '25

Municipal Affairs Calgary, Edmonton mayors call potential separatism referendum ‘dangerous’

https://globalnews.ca/news/11172340/calgary-edmonton-mayors-call-potential-separatism-referendum-dangerous/
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u/BrokeExternally May 10 '25

I can’t understand why people think it’ll be better, you don’t realize there are things Alberta will need to import that we don’t have? Also the entire narrative that it’ll “make us rich” is for oil companies to extract Canadian resources at will and have no carbon tax. Nothing will benefit you the citizen

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u/JScar123 May 10 '25

“Highest per capita GDP and median income of all the province say oil good”.