🇨🇦 Alberta separatists try to sell the province like a yard sale

The funniest part is not Danielle Smith calling it ridiculous. It is separatists allegedly waddling into Washington offering Alberta water and resource royalties to Americans while admitting they have zero authority to offer any of it. That is not sovereignty. That is banana-republic cosplay in cowboy boots. Even by late-stage Canada standards, this is a spectacular self-own, as reported.

But let’s not pretend this circus came from nowhere. Ottawa spent a decade bleeding Alberta through equalization, regulation, and anti-energy moral posturing, while the managerial class lectured the West about climate, diversity, and national unity. That vacuum creates grifters, opportunists, and desperate fantasies. Smith is right to slap down the water-for-recognition nonsense, but she also opened the door to a referendum climate where foreign interest and political theatre were inevitable. When a country treats its productive regions like colonies, don’t act shocked when crackpots start shopping for a new empire.

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