Coralee Prins

Separation of either Quebec or Alberta is not going to happen. Period. Quebec decided today to elect a "perpetual grievance" government. That's fine if you're a have-not province. Grievance gets you more gruel. But it's impossible to rise up out of - when your hands out all the time. Alberta is Canada's energy and economic darling. There is NO way to make that stronger under a constantly hanging questionmark about our investability. I am sorry to say, as many of my own friends think it's smart to just "keep Ottawa accountable" by supporting separatism as a political hammer. But choosing the self-harm of market uncertainty, what would be decades of constitutional and political quicksand, is akin to asking for cancer, to prove you can beat it. There is no upside. So the question begs to be asked; for what gain? To be and have what you are, and already have now? In what is on balance, already the best country in the world? On almost every metric. Especially when half the Alberta "separatists" don't want independence, they want Trumpism and America. They haven't really squared that circle yet for us. How stupid. They want to leave Canada to give our economic golden goose to a kleptocracy, ran by oligarchs, with no checks and balances anymore. Yeah, that's works out great for us?! What would that Alberta have today that we don't already have better than any other jurisdiction in North America? It's time to get our priorities straight Alberta and voting yes on any of this dog-whistle and firewall referendum bullshit, is only going to do more harm to ourselves. Let's bury this sentiment forever and stop legitimizing this conversation. If you're supporting a yes vote, I'll only guarantee that you are making your life harder and your opportunity lower. There is nothing else to be gained and there is no one who can even remotely guarantee I am wrong.