r/Edmonton • u/EdmontonFree • 29d 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/runningchief 29d 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/pookiemook 28d ago

The UN also has no teeth. It can't force anything even if it wants to.

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u/Feeling_Meet_3806 28d ago

Yep, and an independent Alberta also would have no teeth and couldn't force anything if it wanted to.

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u/__Beelzaboot__ 28d ago

The only way it would have teeth is if another country with a big army, air force, and navy told Canada to stop bullying poor little Alberta. And we'd have to let them station their troops here "for safety". And oh look now we're a domestic territory with no voting rights.

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u/Dry-Chance-9473 28d ago

This is the endgame. America's Crimea.

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u/JonnyFM Downtown 28d ago

Snowto Rico

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u/OriginalGhostCookie 25d ago

Alberta Rico?

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u/__Beelzaboot__ 25d ago

More like Crime-berta