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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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Would you like me to list the nations who have been recognized as independent in the past several decades?
Answer this: Per the Clarity Act, the federal government has to negotiate with any province that gives a clear mandate to pursue independence via referendum.
What you don't seem to realize is that the first nation that will recognize an independent Alberta would be Canada itself by virtue of those negotiations.
If Canada were to agree to set a province free, what on earth makes you think the rest of the world would disregard that?
The best comparison in recent history was the partitioning of Czechoslovakia into the Czech and Slovak Republics via their own democratic process. A dissolution which the world unanimously supported.