Everything on the federal side was set up in 1980 when Quebec had their first independence referendum.
The Feds were so focused on Quebec that they made it very easy for Alberta to leave, as the only real impediment is having to pay the Feds back the last five years of federal money given to a province.
Alberta has paid in to Ottawa forever, so the Feds would owe us hundreds of billions and can’t stop shit.
The Supreme Court of Canada locked all secession procedures down, and the way Canada’s system is structured, that’s it. No SC decision or declaration can be overturned.
Also, compacts were signed in the early 2000s that Alberta has the backing of the USA if Canada were to oppose separation.
Please let this happen. We all know how generally funny it would be, but I had this ultimately insufferable “lead singer” in my early Venice days that was from there, and he probably already relocated to BC in anticipation of the secession of the cowboys.
Canadian liberals hitting the bricks in Venice were so funny. They were chastising us for our racism even back in the mid aughts, aka the high water mark of Can’t We Just All Get Along? Generally the smug condescending pricks we’re accustomed to. So it was extra funny to see this guy nicknamed Rishi, was into Hare Krishna - and meth. Guy got fronted a q-per from my future road manager but ignored a way huge rule: do whatever you want during daylight, but at night the nigger and spic gangs had a lock on selling drugs on the boardwalk. Unaffiliated? Probably getting taxed. So Rishi decides, no, I’m not getting taxed! This isn’t fair! Muh NAP! And gets his ass kicked and robbed of everything but the clothes on his ass, shoes included.
This is too much for gentle, semi naive Rishi, who books a flight back to BC - aka, self deported, because all of these snow beaners we’re overstaying tourist visas - but…
…not before riding a borrowed bike down the boardwalk, screaming at the top of his lungs, “FUCK NIGGERS!!! KILL ALL THE NIGGERS!!! SEE AN APE, HANG AN APE!!!” over and over, from one end of the boardwalk to the other.
I’d like to think we were bumping into each other on the Right Stuff 504um and didn’t realize it. Probably posted a Day of the Rake meme at him.
