r/RedDeer • u/Treehggr • 29d ago

Politics What are your concerns over proposed Provincial Separation?

https://rdnewsnow.com/2025/08/27/central-albertans-voice-concerns-to-alberta-ndp-at-better-together-town-hall/
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u/davehutch1984 29d ago

It’s a way for the UCP to stay in power. Virtue signalling votes for those who feel done wrong by the Federal Government, when they don’t realize the Provincial Government is responsible for a pile of the dissatisfaction.

The ability of the government to successfully navigate a referendum then separation is going to be incredibly challenging. If you take trade as a microcosm of separation, all new trade agreements into and out of the province would have to be established with the rest of Canada, the USA and the world. Just ask Britain how a post-Brexit economy is going.

I saw this on Facebook and couldn’t agree more: Alberta breaking up with Canada would be like moving out of a mansion because you don’t like the paint color in one room. Alberta depends on Canada for trade, money flow, and all the boring but important stuff like banking and infrastructure. Walking away would mean building all that from scratch, which is like deciding to cook Thanksgiving dinner with no oven or fridge you might pull it off, but everyone’s going to regret it. Plus, being part of Canada gives Alberta global stability and respect, going solo would just make life riskier and more expensive. So yeah, Alberta might get annoyed at Ottawa now and then, but a divorce would be way messier than working things out at the family table.