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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Let me answer that with a question....
If Texas voted to separate from the U.S., do you think the U.S. would allow it to happen? If Wales voted to separate from Britain, do you think the U.S. would support Wales over Britain?
The west has a way of sticking togething and supporting each other. In the case of Kosovo, you have a population with a different ethnicicity and language than the mother country, and an area that underwent genocide - and even that split the world community of whether or not it was legitimate seccession. With Alberta, you have no history of genocide and a culture homogenous with the mother country. If Kosovo set a dangerous precedent, then Alberta would set an even more dangerous one - one that would have severe implications in every country.
Face it, every country has regions that think the grass is greener on the other side. So I stand by my point that the international community would not recognize it because of the implications it would have on nearly every country,
It's all moot anyway. Quebec, which probably has an even stronger case for independence, has never been able to get more than 50% support in the own province. There was even a question then if the U.S. would support that.
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Alberta would have to prove that they are a different nation from Canada, did not have appropriate rights to govern themselves and were marginalized by their mother government.
Ridiculous assertion to compare Alberta to Kosovo and East Timor. Especially when you consider the extremely decentralized system of Canadian Federalism where Alberta arguably have more than their fair share of self-government compared to the rest of the world, let alone other national federal systems.
Absolutely ridiculous.