As an Albertan and Proud Canadian I find this movement very disturbing. I see long lines of people signing this ridiculous petition and then wonder why there is no media coverage. I personally don’t believe there are that many people that support this but the optics are bad. And now that I am reading that the TPP has met 3 times with “ high level “ White House officials, it looks even worse. And they are asking for another meeting in February. To hopefully cement the $500 million offer that they supposedly offered. We need to start making pointed calls and posts telling the truth of what would actually happen if Alberta tried to leave. Like losing CPP and OAS which I depend on. Those are just the first things. This is so obviously interference from the US why are we not seeing headlines.
Thank you for your writing. I am really enjoying it. It’s clear and to the point. Canada Strong🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Shelagh... thank you. And you’re not wrong on any of this.
The optics are doing real damage, even if the actual support is thinner than it looks. Long lines + silence from major media = a vacuum that bad actors are happy to fill.
You’re also dead-on about consequences. Separation isn’t a protest vote or a vibes-based rebellion... it’s a hard legal and economic rupture. CPP, OAS, federal transfers, trade access, currency risk… none of that survives a “let’s just try it” mindset. People who depend on those programs would feel it first and worst.
And yes, when groups with no democratic mandate are shopping their plans to foreign political power brokers, that’s not grassroots... that’s interference. If this were happening in another country, we’d call it exactly that.
What’s missing is plain-language truth, repeated calmly and relentlessly. Not slogans. Not panic. Just: here’s what actually breaks, here’s who pays, and here’s who benefits.
I appreciate you saying the writing helps. That tells me this approach matters. Canada Strong right back at you 💪
great insight. I echo what so many are saying... sadly we trust out erstwhile friendly neighbor. But as PM Carney said at Davos, the is the broken fractured past! Tomorrow or yesterday is gone. We are looking at a new reality. Time for middle powers to take themselves off the menu!! A cursory knowledge of wars tell us that the USA has meddled in many parts of the world and then gone on the attack when two parts collide!! Canada is the one part. Alberta is the other. The USA is doing what very few want to believe!! Meddling with Canadian sovereignty!! Time to speak up and get the Elbows UP!!
Well said. This is a new reality... and pretending it’s still 1995 is how countries get played.
History is pretty clear on one thing: great powers don’t always conquer with tanks first. They probe. They wedge. They fund divisions. Then they step back and watch sparks fly.
Canada isn’t immune. Alberta-as-a-pressure-point isn’t accidental. And “friendly neighbour” doesn’t mean harmless when interests shift.
Middle powers staying “polite” while being carved up is how they end up on the menu.
Elbows up isn’t chest-thumping... it’s awareness, unity, and refusing to be quietly split in two.
Think Brexit and what happened there. I still can't believe that 17% of my province (Sask) also wants to separate. Like life would be better being part of the US....NEVER.
Thanks, Carol-Ann. Just to be clear about how I work... I don’t make news and I don’t hype it. I read widely, follow people who actually do the work, and then translate what’s already out there into plain language... without spin, without fear-bait, and without pretending I’ve got secret information.
People like Charlie Angus are on the front lines. My role is simpler... I connect dots, strip out the nonsense, and say the quiet parts out loud so regular Canadians can see what’s happening without needing a decoder ring.
As an Albertan and Proud Canadian I find this movement very disturbing. I see long lines of people signing this ridiculous petition and then wonder why there is no media coverage. I personally don’t believe there are that many people that support this but the optics are bad. And now that I am reading that the TPP has met 3 times with “ high level “ White House officials, it looks even worse. And they are asking for another meeting in February. To hopefully cement the $500 million offer that they supposedly offered. We need to start making pointed calls and posts telling the truth of what would actually happen if Alberta tried to leave. Like losing CPP and OAS which I depend on. Those are just the first things. This is so obviously interference from the US why are we not seeing headlines.
Thank you for your writing. I am really enjoying it. It’s clear and to the point. Canada Strong🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Shelagh... thank you. And you’re not wrong on any of this.
The optics are doing real damage, even if the actual support is thinner than it looks. Long lines + silence from major media = a vacuum that bad actors are happy to fill.
You’re also dead-on about consequences. Separation isn’t a protest vote or a vibes-based rebellion... it’s a hard legal and economic rupture. CPP, OAS, federal transfers, trade access, currency risk… none of that survives a “let’s just try it” mindset. People who depend on those programs would feel it first and worst.
And yes, when groups with no democratic mandate are shopping their plans to foreign political power brokers, that’s not grassroots... that’s interference. If this were happening in another country, we’d call it exactly that.
What’s missing is plain-language truth, repeated calmly and relentlessly. Not slogans. Not panic. Just: here’s what actually breaks, here’s who pays, and here’s who benefits.
I appreciate you saying the writing helps. That tells me this approach matters. Canada Strong right back at you 💪
great insight. I echo what so many are saying... sadly we trust out erstwhile friendly neighbor. But as PM Carney said at Davos, the is the broken fractured past! Tomorrow or yesterday is gone. We are looking at a new reality. Time for middle powers to take themselves off the menu!! A cursory knowledge of wars tell us that the USA has meddled in many parts of the world and then gone on the attack when two parts collide!! Canada is the one part. Alberta is the other. The USA is doing what very few want to believe!! Meddling with Canadian sovereignty!! Time to speak up and get the Elbows UP!!
Well said. This is a new reality... and pretending it’s still 1995 is how countries get played.
History is pretty clear on one thing: great powers don’t always conquer with tanks first. They probe. They wedge. They fund divisions. Then they step back and watch sparks fly.
Canada isn’t immune. Alberta-as-a-pressure-point isn’t accidental. And “friendly neighbour” doesn’t mean harmless when interests shift.
Middle powers staying “polite” while being carved up is how they end up on the menu.
Elbows up isn’t chest-thumping... it’s awareness, unity, and refusing to be quietly split in two.
Speak up. Or get spoken for.✊
Think Brexit and what happened there. I still can't believe that 17% of my province (Sask) also wants to separate. Like life would be better being part of the US....NEVER.
Exactly. Brexit is the cautionary tale people keep forgetting on purpose.
It was sold as “taking back control.”
What they got was trade friction, labour shortages, a weaker pound, and a decade of “wait, this wasn’t the plan.”
And the Saskatchewan separatist fantasy is the same script with a different accent.
Leaving a federation doesn’t magically make you richer or freer.
It makes you smaller, with less leverage, and suddenly very dependent on the neighbours you just pissed off.
As for joining the U.S.?
That’s not independence... that’s downgrading your vote and outsourcing your future to a system that can’t even agree on facts.
Thank You for mentioning Charlie Angus. I am subscribed to him too. He is working so hard too to make people see the light.
Thanks, Carol-Ann. Just to be clear about how I work... I don’t make news and I don’t hype it. I read widely, follow people who actually do the work, and then translate what’s already out there into plain language... without spin, without fear-bait, and without pretending I’ve got secret information.
People like Charlie Angus are on the front lines. My role is simpler... I connect dots, strip out the nonsense, and say the quiet parts out loud so regular Canadians can see what’s happening without needing a decoder ring.
Thank You, Fred.