There is core of support of perhaps 30% if Carney wins and depending on how soon he confirms his intentions of turning the screws on shutting down the Oil Patch or emasculating it by tying carbon capture to production, sentiment will grow particularly with a confrontational relationship with the governments of Alberta and Saskatchewan (where separatist sentiment is at least as high or higher). Both will likely try the notwithstanding clause to exert Quebec-like independence and whatever legal or constitutional tools are available in the process. North Eastern BC would likely want to join in as they are more married to the rest of the East slopes of the Rockies (sharing the same sedimentary basin and Calgary head offices) than to the Coastal Eloi in Victoria and the lower mainland.
First off, my apologies for the delay in responding; I was on Grandfather duty (a joyous duty, that one) for the last four days.
Anyway, I recently saw a national columnist dismiss separatist sentiment in Alberta as being essentially inconsequential (my word; I cannot recall his but my word adequately summarizes his point) because the number of people leaning in that direction was "only" thirty per cent. I found his assertion to be astounding as thirty per cent is a pretty large number, particularly when you consider the 2021 election saw the OPC form government with 32.6% support.
Now, I grant you that a yes/no question is different than picking among many parties but 30% is still significant.
As for the NWC, those people who get their shirts in a knot / hair on fire / etc. because it "violates the spirit of the Charter" simply ignore that it was put in the Charter for the express reason of allowing governments to use it where they found it useful. Of course, Quebec has used it most but why should other governments not use it? The point of the NWC is that not all provinces have the same way of thinking, notwithstanding (sorry, couldn't resist) that we are all citizens of Canada.
Put yet another way, why oh why am I require to think the same way as you? Further, "YOUR" courts have asserted that some rights are important and then further asserted that some rights can legitimately be abrogated for the "common good" or some such rot.
Either rights are absolute or they are not. If you insist on picking and choosing just which rights are absolute and which are not, then I (or my provincial government) insist on the same way of working.
As to where I stand on separation of my province of Alberta, I am mighty cheesed off (vast understatement) at the way we have been treated by Canada and I am further terrifically unhappy at the apparent plan of a prospective Carney government to further disadvantage us. I therefore simply say that I am willing to listen to such proponents of a new arrangement of some nature, so count me among the thirty per cent.
There is core of support of perhaps 30% if Carney wins and depending on how soon he confirms his intentions of turning the screws on shutting down the Oil Patch or emasculating it by tying carbon capture to production, sentiment will grow particularly with a confrontational relationship with the governments of Alberta and Saskatchewan (where separatist sentiment is at least as high or higher). Both will likely try the notwithstanding clause to exert Quebec-like independence and whatever legal or constitutional tools are available in the process. North Eastern BC would likely want to join in as they are more married to the rest of the East slopes of the Rockies (sharing the same sedimentary basin and Calgary head offices) than to the Coastal Eloi in Victoria and the lower mainland.
First off, my apologies for the delay in responding; I was on Grandfather duty (a joyous duty, that one) for the last four days.
Anyway, I recently saw a national columnist dismiss separatist sentiment in Alberta as being essentially inconsequential (my word; I cannot recall his but my word adequately summarizes his point) because the number of people leaning in that direction was "only" thirty per cent. I found his assertion to be astounding as thirty per cent is a pretty large number, particularly when you consider the 2021 election saw the OPC form government with 32.6% support.
Now, I grant you that a yes/no question is different than picking among many parties but 30% is still significant.
As for the NWC, those people who get their shirts in a knot / hair on fire / etc. because it "violates the spirit of the Charter" simply ignore that it was put in the Charter for the express reason of allowing governments to use it where they found it useful. Of course, Quebec has used it most but why should other governments not use it? The point of the NWC is that not all provinces have the same way of thinking, notwithstanding (sorry, couldn't resist) that we are all citizens of Canada.
Put yet another way, why oh why am I require to think the same way as you? Further, "YOUR" courts have asserted that some rights are important and then further asserted that some rights can legitimately be abrogated for the "common good" or some such rot.
Either rights are absolute or they are not. If you insist on picking and choosing just which rights are absolute and which are not, then I (or my provincial government) insist on the same way of working.
As to where I stand on separation of my province of Alberta, I am mighty cheesed off (vast understatement) at the way we have been treated by Canada and I am further terrifically unhappy at the apparent plan of a prospective Carney government to further disadvantage us. I therefore simply say that I am willing to listen to such proponents of a new arrangement of some nature, so count me among the thirty per cent.