🇨🇦 Ottawa pushed Alberta to this edge

The real scandal is not that Danielle Smith is floating a vote on secession. The scandal is that Ottawa spent years treating Alberta like a resource colony and now acts shocked that people noticed. After Trudeau-era sabotage of energy, federal revenue grabs, and nonstop moral lectures from the Laurentian bubble, western premiers are meeting in Kananaskis because national unity is finally colliding with reality, as reported.

Smith did not invent western alienation. Ottawa did. Every pipeline blocked, every net-zero fantasy imposed, every sneer from the media class helped turn separatism from fringe grumbling into a live political instrument. Scott Moe has his own grievances, B.C. postures as usual, and Manitoba’s Wab Kinew can play federal loyalist, but the core issue is simple: Confederation cannot survive as a one-way extraction scheme where the West pays and central Canada dictates. This is what happens when a country forgets sovereignty starts at home, not in Davos slide decks.

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