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MicroWave@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

Alberta premier’s request for separation referendum question approval rebuffed

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MicroWave@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago
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Alberta's chief electoral officer is rebuffing calls from Danielle Smith and her justice minister to reverse course and sign off on a proposed referendum question on separation.
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  • Greyghoster@aussie.zone
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    Sounds like a billionaires ploy to create an oil state that they can take and run as a kingdom.

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      The tourism ads write themselves:

      “Alberta: it’s Louisiana with Healthcare”

      “Alberta: it’s Venezuela without good food”

      “Alberta: it’s Saudi Arabia with a shittier climate”

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        I wouldn’t count on the good healthcare to survive if Alberta leaves Canada

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          Alberta is actively destroying their healthcare now. It likely won’t survive Smith’s term.

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    I’m not Canadian but I lived there for a few years. I went back to my home country, but I still follow Canadian politics closely.

    Calgary has the worst traffic fatalities rate in the country:

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/pedestrian-deaths-increase-1.7530354

    Alberta has the worst measles epidemic in North America:

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/alberta-surpasses-us-in-confirmed-measles-cases-with-more-than-1300/

    Premier Danielle Smith publically criticized vaccines:

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/danielle-smith-adolf-hitler-netflix-rachel-notley-1.6836160

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    If Alberta politicians are too incompetent to manage traffic safety or prevent measles, what makes people think they can manage a new country…???

    No offense, but this would be a Failed State on day 1.

    • C4551E@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      She would beg Trump to come annex Alberta on day 1.

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    How about amend it so that if it fails, she ends up in prison?

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