🇨🇦 What will Mark Carney's role be in the Alberta referendum?

The funniest part is that the bar is now simply not being Justin Trudeau. That alone is apparently enough to rebrand the same federalist machinery as fresh leadership. The snippet says Carney’s role in the struggle against separatist sentiment remains unclear, which tells you plenty already. Ottawa’s instinct is never self-examination, never why Alberta is alienated, never what years of top-down ideological management did to national cohesion. It is always how to manage the rebellion, as reported.

Carney is being framed as the calmer face of the same centralizing establishment. Different packaging, same mission: keep the provinces in line, preserve the federal consensus, and pretend the problem is sentiment rather than policy fallout. That is the Trudeau era in miniature. Alienate a province, sneer at its interests, then send in a polished technocrat to save the national project from the people living under it. Federalism in Canada increasingly means obedience to Ottawa wrapped in elite language and sold as unity.

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