🇨🇦 Ottawa suddenly discovers Alberta exists

Days before Alberta’s Oct. 19 referendum, Mark Carney is flying in with a miracle conversion to western concerns. How touching. After years of Ottawa treating Alberta like a tax farm with bad politics, the federal machine now designates the Pacific Link pipeline a project of national interest and expects gratitude. Even Alberta voters can smell the panic. As reported, this vote is only a first step, but the message is already brutal: national unity suddenly matters when the regime risks losing control.

Then comes the predictable script update: foreign interference. The same class that shrugs at sovereignty erosion, global NGO influence and cross-border corporate lobbying now wants Albertans lectured about outside meddling because more than 60 groups got notices from the foreign influence commissioner. Convenient timing. Ottawa ignored western alienation while Trudeau-era policy hollowed out trust, energy development and federal legitimacy. Now Carney arrives as the responsible adult after the house is already on fire. This is not reconciliation. It is crisis management by a political cartel terrified that one province is done pretending the confederation bargain still works.

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