{"id":47954,"date":"2026-10-07T22:45:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T02:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=47954"},"modified":"2026-10-07T22:45:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T02:45:29","slug":"hold-on-alberta-all-of-canada-gets-a-say-on-breaking-up-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=47954","title":{"rendered":"Hold on Alberta, all of Canada gets a say on breaking up the country"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/opinion\/contributors\/hold-on-alberta-all-of-canada-gets-say-on-breaking-up-the-country\/article_42407863-9d15-4d71-ba8e-4232dcbd7e54.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ac5469e03d55.image_.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:237px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/opinion\/contributors\/hold-on-alberta-all-of-canada-gets-say-on-breaking-up-the-country\/article_42407863-9d15-4d71-ba8e-4232dcbd7e54.html\">Hold on Alberta, all of Canada gets a say on breaking up the country<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">right on!  we are not a loose collection of states (like the usa, for instance).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many recoil here and invoke \u201cself-determination,\u201d 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. <strong><em>That is not a flaw in Confederation. That is Confederation.<\/em><\/strong><br>&#8230;<br><strong><em>Ironically, the loudest separatist flirtations come from provinces built by national investment; Quebec\u2019s Seaway and aerospace no less than Alberta\u2019s oilsands.<\/em><\/strong> In 1975, when Atlantic Richfield\u2019s withdrawal left a 30 per cent hole in Syncrude\u2019s financing, Ottawa, Ontario, and Alberta filled it with $600 million of public money and that year Parliament created Calgary-headquartered Petro-Canada.<br>&#8230;<br><strong><em>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<\/em><\/strong>. 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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada was never a collection of provinces sharing a flag; it is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[366,84,442,1432],"class_list":["post-47954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-alberta","tag-canada","tag-quebec","tag-western-sov","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47957,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47954\/revisions\/47957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}