🇨🇦 The fight for Alberta's 'soft separatists' — the conservatives who want to send Carney a message

The funniest part is watching Ottawa’s wreckage get rebranded as a misunderstanding. Even this reported version admits Alberta anger was carefully fed during the Trudeau years because Alberta was attacked, then pivots to Monte Solberg and Jason Kenney begging conservatives not to use Option 2 to send Mark Carney a message. So the province gets punished for a decade, and now the same political class says calm down, trust the process, and applaud a new manager with better optics.

That is the Canadian federal game in one scene: abuse the productive province, then shame it for reacting too loudly. Solberg’s side says Carney has moved in a different direction on electricity regulations, the EV mandate and export pipelines, as if a few tactical adjustments erase the machinery that created this revolt in the first place. Alberta’s separatist impulse did not appear out of thin air, and soft separatists are really just people who finally noticed Confederation has become a one-way extraction system. The establishment only rediscovers national unity when the West stops obeying.

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