🇨🇦 Mark Carney Gets His Alberta Problem

The Liberals just won another majority with an Edmonton-born PM, and Alberta separatism is surging anyway. That tells you everything about how broken this federation has become. Danielle Smith painted her toenails red and white before the vote, pledged loyalty to Team Canada, and still faces a growing movement demanding an exit referendum. Carney can flash his Alberta birth certificate all he wants — the West knows a Bay Street globalist when it sees one.

The province votes Conservative by landslide margins election after election, funds transfer payments that subsidize vote-rich Liberal ridings in the East, and gets carbon taxes and resource sector strangulation in return. Smith amended referendum laws in 2025 to make secession votes easier to trigger, and now separatist groups are collecting signatures. When even moderate premiers stop defending federalism with conviction, you know the social contract is disintegrating. Ottawa built this.

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