🇨🇦 Ottawa finally admits Alberta pays the bills

The funniest part is not that Ottawa fears Alberta separation. It is that the same federal class that spent a decade kneecapping energy, smearing the oil patch, and treating the province like a piggy bank now panics over an $18-billion fiscal shock if Alberta walks. Internal briefs confirm Alberta drives $475 billion in activity, 15 per cent of national GDP, and 31 per cent of exports. Translation: the regime in Ottawa knows exactly who subsidizes its moral vanity projects.

They even warn of head office flight, market tightening, pension-law flaws, and an exodus of skilled workers, as if federal policy has not already been manufacturing all of that in slow motion. Between 2022 and 2024, Alberta sent an average net $18 billion a year into the federation, only to get lectures, regulation, and climate hysterics in return. This is what national disunity looks like under post-national management: extract wealth from the productive parts, insult them, then act shocked when sovereignty talk stops sounding crazy.

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