π¨π¦ Alberta Separatists Prepare to Go Around the Courts β And Ottawa Has Nobody to Blame But Itself
If a court blocks the separatist referendum bid in Alberta, organizers are already planning to pressure Premier Danielle Smith into approving it through the legislature anyway. That's the stark reality now being openly discussed β and it signals that the Alberta independence movement has matured past the protest phase into serious political strategy. When one path is blocked, they find another. That's not radicalism. That's determination.
Decades of federal overreach β the carbon tax, equalization, pipeline obstruction, Trudeau's open contempt for the West β built this movement brick by brick. Ottawa spent years treating Alberta like a revenue colony and then expressed shock when Albertans started asking why they're in this Confederation at all. Smith is being squeezed from both sides. The courts may slow the process, but they cannot dissolve the underlying grievance. A political fire that Ottawa lit doesn't go out because a judge issues an injunction.
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