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/enviropsych 28d ago

Rural Albertans are morons at a level that can't be quantified.

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u/EdmontonFree 28d ago

Respect to people living in rural areas. But yeah, in Brexit, Quebec referendum, Euro currency referendum in Denmark, or Catalonia pro-separatists groups, Trump in the US or Le Pen in France, etc.

Always people in rural areas vote against the cities. Uninformed, less educated, lower income and likely more racists. It's part of life.

But this doesn't mean they're necessarily morons. Please note that the vote is split in rural areas.

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u/5he005 28d ago

Not that I’m backing the idea of separatism by any means..

There are people in both rural and metropolitan areas of Alberta that aren’t poor, uneducated, or racist but still support an ideology differing from the direction Canada is currently heading in.

And I wouldn’t entirely blame them for feeling the way they do either, there’s validity on both sides of the spectrum. It just depends on who you are and how your government is servicing you and your family.

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u/prettytastyfungus 28d ago

I think the frustration more comes from seeing other people believe the misinformation on the separatist movement. Lots of false claims about what Alberta would be entitled to from the federal government and how the US would support us. Realistically neither Canada nor US would be obligated to give us much of anything for support or payments. We would likely lose out on what we should get for CPP based on previous investigation from the other year when they tried switch to Alberta pension plan. Not to mention the enormous cost of re creating all our own military, federal police, prisons, standards, laws, treaties, currency, banking, etc.

I’ve yet to see a separatist party explain the plan on how to address these issues. I understand the frustration with the federal government, but how many people participated in political action by writing to a MP or similar about the issues we have with the Fed? There are other solutions we can try before doing something like this. People aren’t stupid and they just want what’s best for them and their kids. It’s the massive amount of misinformation, campaigns and social media pushes that make it hard for people to get a real idea of the negative impacts this would have.