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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
We have to sell them our oil. That's what the whole separation idea (as I've read it here) is built on -- selling oil and using the money from that to look after ourselves and be rich.
It's either sell it to "them" or try (hope) to sell it to the rest of the world on "their" terms using infrastructure in "their" country on "their" terms.
Do you think that if we refused to sell our oil to Canada or the US that they'd let us just pump that oil through pipelines over their land and into tankers at their ports so it can be shipped to China or India? I don't think that's going to happen.
The US and Canada could and would do whatever they damn well please to us. They aren't going to be nice to us.
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Do you think any oil is getting through the pipelines in Alberta in this situation? The only realistic result of your suggestion is that Canada and the US screw themselves in the process of screwing us.
Your wishful thinking may lead you to assume that Canada would be so angry that they would try to screw us over at all costs, but I suspect the people in charge are much more pragmatic than you are. Either side acting out of spite will only serve to harm its own citizens.
Not to mention the fact that legally, a province can only seperate after negotiating the terms with the rest of Canada. This wouldn't exactly be a situation of Alberta taking off, leaving Canada the jilted lover bent on revenge.