🇨🇦 Quebec wants sovereignty, Alberta wants escape

The funniest part is not that Quebec sovereigntists and Alberta separatists disagree. It is that Ottawa has spent decades building a federation so lopsided, so smug, and so hostile to regional interests that breakup talk now comes from both sides for completely different reasons. As reported, Quebec nationalists see little common ground with Alberta separatists. Of course they do. Quebec separatism was always about extracting special status while keeping the transfer cheques warm. Alberta anger is about being looted, regulated, and moralized at by a Laurentian political class that treats oil wealth like a piggy bank and western voters like a contamination.

This is the real Trudeau legacy: not unity, but managed fracture. A country where one province gets indulgence for identity politics while another gets punished for producing the wealth that keeps the show running is not a nation. It is a racket. The federal elite can sneer at separatism all it wants, but when sovereignty, energy, and representation are all sacrificed to central Canadian vanity and globalist posturing, centrifugal politics stop looking crazy and start looking inevitable.

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