🇨🇦 Calgary council suddenly discovers Alberta might leave

After years of Ottawa treating Alberta like a tax farm with no veto, Calgary council is scrambling to issue symbolic therapy statements about national unity. Mayor Jeromy Farkas wants an urgent meeting so council can officially support staying in Canada, while others note this is not even municipal business, as reported. They are both right in a way: it is theatre, and the theatre exists because the federal regime spent a decade punishing the province that keeps the lights on.

The panic line is a University of Calgary estimate that separation could cost up to $170 billion over five years. Fine. But where was this elite urgency while Trudeau-era policy kneecapped energy, centralized power, and turned national unity into a one-way extraction scheme. Investors are supposedly nervous now. Imagine that. Maybe they were also nervous when Ottawa declared war on pipelines, sovereignty, and economic reality. Calgary’s political class wants to endorse Canada without admitting why Albertans are done trusting it.

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