🇨🇦 Alberta separatism hits 27% as Ottawa's extraction racket finally gets noticed

When Wilfrid Laurier deliberately carved up the proposed Buffalo province in 1905 because he feared a Conservative west becoming too powerful, he set the template for a century of managed decline. Now that chickens are coming home: 27% want out entirely, another 15% willing to vote yes just to send Ottawa a message, as one poll found. That's 42% of Albertans ready to check the box. Brexit started with less.

Former energy minister Ted Morton nails it: Alberta exists as a piggy bank for Liberal vote-buying in the 905 and Quebec. No accident the feds blocked Buffalo, no accident they've spent decades ensuring resource wealth flows east while regulatory chains tighten west. When your founding story is intentional weakening to prevent autonomy, separation isn't radical—it's overdue.

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