Katheryn Speck said she used to be a Canadian nationalist, travelled the world with a maple leaf on her backpack and once lived in Quebec so she could become fluently bilingual.
But on Saturday she was among hundreds of people who rallied at the Alberta Legislature to support separation from Canada, with many in the crowd waving Alberta flags and a few even displaying the U.S. Stars and Stripes.
“I thought it was a beautiful, fantastic country. But now I’m so disappointed. I’m literally crushed that we’ll never be represented in this country and there’s never a chance of changing the government,” Speck said.
Earlier this week, Premier Danielle Smith’s government proposed legislation that would lower the bar for holding a referendum.
Pissed that the rest of Canada won’t build pipelines for them. Give them better access to refineries in other provinces. Clearly, leaving the country is the solution.
This is like moving out on your own because your roommates won’t clean up after you, and make you pay your share of the bills.
Even the “for them” is such bullshit. It isn’t like they are taxing the oil and gas companies to build a better social welfare state. They have the lowest corporate taxes in Canada, very low income taxes, no sales tax. If they wanted they could have made themselves into fucking Norway but no, better lick Oil and Gas boot and identify as a derrick well.
I’d say it’s more like insisting your parents legally give you their basement as a separate property.