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Originally Posted by Snakeeye
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.
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In a separation scenario, we need them a hell of a lot more than they need us. Alberta isn't the only place in the world with oil underneath it. We wouldn't be able to do anything without their co-operation. Selling our oil would be on their terms.
I don't think they'd screw themselves just to spite us, but I think they'd turn the screws absolutely as far as possible. The only reason they wouldn't is to be polite and I don't see them being polite.
But if it got right down to it and we said "forget you, you can't have any of it" then someone would invade our glorious little Oilcountry and take it.
Not that there has ever been a war over oil, but there is a first time for everything.
I know I'm repeating the same theme over and over but can't you see that we would be at their mercy? We'd have no bargaining power whatsoever. You think the Canadian military is inadequate? Imagine if we had to start from scratch.
This tiny little enclave of a few million people, stuck in the middle of the continent with no physical access to the outside world, literally standing on top of hundreds of trillions of dollars, with no military (or a very small one) and nobody is going to take advantage of us? Why wouldn't they?