This is an excellent a-political explainer about why the actual act of Alberta, or any province, "separating" from Canada is a very difficult, maybe impossible, prospect.

It's worth the time (14 minutes) Including if you're not Canadian and want a relatively quick summary of some of the very Canadian history and processes.
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https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7136155

https://thewalrus.ca/albertas-separatists-are-chasing-a-total-cowboy-fantasy/

More on Alberta separatism. This article gives a plausible account of the movement as being fuelled by hostility to immigrants.

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https://thewalrus.ca/how-albertas-separatist-movement-could-shake-north-america

This article traces the separatist movement back to 1980 and the response to the National Energy Program.

I'm not an expert on the history of Canada, still less that of Alberta, so I have no grounds for for contesting the article's claim about the beginnings of calls for separation.

I wonder, though, if the groundwork for the rise of separatism was laid by Alberta's distinctive political history from 1935 onwards. That year saw the election of a Social Credit government in the province; the right populist party would dominate the political landscape there for another 35 years.

The heritage of the Social Credit movement in Alberta, with its roots in evangelicalism and populist resentment of banks and distant metropolitan elites, might explain some (not all) of the current separatist movement's sympathies with Trumpish Americanism.

Understanding the rise of the Social Credit movement in Alberta matters not only for the history of Canada and of the Grest Depression in general, but also for our understanding of right wing populist movements.

In another part of the article...

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i think flirting with separatism is really just escapism

i am genuinely interested to see how those experiments would go, they might be fruitful

if that's your bag, you could start today. you'd have to use your agency and make a clean break though

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