Canada was never a collection of provinces sharing a flag; it is a national project built by generations of Canadians and by Indigenous nations whose agreements predate it.
Source: Hold on Alberta, all of Canada gets a say on breaking up the country
right on! we are not a loose collection of states (like the usa, for instance).
fta:
Many recoil here and invoke “self-determination,” insisting only the seceding province should decide. But Confederation is already a shared democratic and fiscal project where a voter in Nova Scotia influences federal taxes collected in Alberta. That is not a flaw in Confederation. That is Confederation.
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Ironically, the loudest separatist flirtations come from provinces built by national investment; Quebec’s Seaway and aerospace no less than Alberta’s oilsands. In 1975, when Atlantic Richfield’s withdrawal left a 30 per cent hole in Syncrude’s financing, Ottawa, Ontario, and Alberta filled it with $600 million of public money and that year Parliament created Calgary-headquartered Petro-Canada.
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Canada was never a collection of provinces sharing a flag; it is a national project built by generations of Canadians and by Indigenous nations whose agreements predate it. Our duty as custodians is to hand Canada intact to the next generation. If someone wants to dismantle part of it, the whole country deserves a vote on whether the walls come down.
