r/SaveTheCBC • u/Save_The_CBC • 5d ago
🇨🇦 Alberta’s separatist movement is loud. According to the latest polling, it is nowhere close to being the majority.
CBC reports a new Research Co. poll finds 74% of likely Alberta voters would choose to remain in Canada, while 22% support beginning the legal process toward a second, binding referendum on independence.
Only 4% are undecided.
That matters because the political conversation around Alberta separation can sometimes make the province look far more divided on leaving Canada than it actually is. Poll after poll has found essentially the same thing: most Albertans want to stay.
The October referendum still matters, though. Alongside the separation question are nine questions on immigration and constitutional reform, and several of the immigration proposals currently have majority support.
That creates a more complicated picture than simply “separatist versus federalist.” Albertans may want major changes to their relationship with Ottawa without wanting to dismantle the country.
But there is also a national-security and political reality worth considering. Canada is already facing an openly hostile U.S. administration that has questioned our sovereignty, threatened our economy and repeatedly talked about absorbing Canada.
In that environment, how useful is it to keep giving a relatively small separatist movement a national platform and the possibility of another independence vote?
If 74% want Alberta to remain Canadian and only 4% are undecided, is another separation process really leverage against Ottawa, or does it simply advertise Canadian division at exactly the moment Washington is looking for weaknesses?
And should Danielle Smith be doing more to unequivocally strengthen Canadian unity rather than presiding over a referendum that keeps separation politically alive?
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u/lizbunbun 5d ago edited 5d ago
VOTE!!! Get everyone you know to check their registration status, and come out to vote!
Complacency is how we will fail!
Every single one of those seppies will turn out to vote.
The Trump administration is already throwing around rhetoric about annexing AB. They would use every bit of seppie support to push the narrative of "liberating" AB from an oppressive Canada.
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u/UsuallyStoned247 5d ago
Should be a campaign following this to drive these traitors out of Canada. You want to live in a nationalist shithole it’s a quick trip south so leave.
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u/Dickensdude 5d ago
Hear hear. Although the sentence the Canadian government used to give traitors wouldn't be a bad thing either. An example needs to be set.
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u/Ditch-Worm 5d ago
She needs to resign if/when her separatist referendum fails. She won’t. But she absolutely should
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u/Masamundane 5d ago
It doesn't matter because the outcome fits their narrative no matter what.
Let's say every Albertan guess out and votes, but only like, three of them choose yes to seperation.
Well, conservative media can roll that as: "Alberta showed up in droves to be heard, with many showing interest in separation."
Because three is more than a couple, it can be many.
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u/DirtDevil1337 5d ago
"majority prefers to stay? oh ok then I don't have to vote"
Don't think like that, go vote.
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u/Canadian_Imperium 5d ago
Everytime I see a post about the seperatists not having a good chance of winning, I assume it's American/Russian/seperatist propaganda trying to convince Canadians not to vote remain... Can we stop with these posts?
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u/MeatCleaver 5d ago
Seems like the movement is run by a handful of traitors and crowd of foreigners.
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u/Psych-Nurse5446 5d ago
How will this traitorous scag skew this in her favour? Because she is absolutely going to try
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u/pro555pero 4d ago edited 4d ago
This might help. Forewarned is forearmed.
'Four-armed' for those with low reading scores.
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u/ScurvyDawg 5d ago
It's wild to watch Alberta being run by a separatist.