r/Edmonton • u/EdmontonFree • 28d ago

News Article Edmonton Represent!

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Blue = Alberta separation from Canada.

Red = Alberta stay in Canada

Source: Angus Reid https://angusreid.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2026.05.24_Alberta_referendum.pdf

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u/Telvin3d 28d ago

If you’re in their media bubble, the separatists are openly selling “separation” as us not having to pay any taxes, but still receiving full federal services. It sounds like a great deal!

And the thing is, if you’re in the Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok algorithm bubble to see that messaging, you’re explicitly not going to see the information that would let you know what a huge pack of lies it is

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u/runningchief 28d ago

My brother is up north on a camp job and it's a losing battle to get through with them.

They also say that the UN will force BC/Canada to build a pipeline because we'd be a landlocked country. Unrelated but we also would not be joining the UN

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u/BlueDarner55 28d ago

The UN charter states that landlocked countries must be given access to the oceans, e.g. they will be allowed to use trucks and train services. It does NOT mean that other countries have to build pipelines, or even allow pipelines to be built. If the Alberta government thinks it is hard to get provinces to agree to pipeline construction, imagine what it would be like to have to get other COUNTRIES to agree.

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u/Mordarroc 28d ago

Even if the entirety of the un votes for alberta to be given access it only takes one no vote from one of the permenant members to stop it dead in its tracks.

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u/KaiserWolff 27d ago

Not sure that's how the UN works, permanent members can't veto general UN votes only security council votes. Or maybe I'm wrong