🇨🇦 Ottawa made separatism sound rational

The funniest part is not Alberta separatists claiming independence could cost just $5 billion while yielding a $22.2 to $32.1 billion annual surplus. It is that after a decade of Trudeau-era looting, centralization, equalization grift, and anti-energy sabotage, plenty of Albertans are willing to hear it out. Even the critics admit the debate is real, as reported in competing estimates ranging from $50 billion to $200 billion.

Yes, the Alberta Transition Council is clearly lowballing big-ticket items like military costs, federal debt, and Indigenous obligations. But the broader indictment lands on Ottawa, not just on Keith Wilson’s spreadsheet optimism. When a province rich in oil, gas, and tax revenue starts treating national divorce as a budgeting exercise, that is a flashing red sign of a broken federation. Canada under the Laurentian managerial class has become a machine for extracting wealth from productive regions while lecturing them about climate dogma, DEI bureaucracy, and post-national nonsense. That is what makes separation talk politically durable.

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