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Originally Posted by Flaming Homer
Who says Alberta just couldn't pull out of all ties with canada and claim soverneigty, it would certainly take a while to become official and most certainly illegal but it's not impossible.
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It's called the Clarity Act and basically it gives the Federal government unilateral decision making powers on whether or not a province has legitimate and popular cause for secession.
The popular majority for seperation as defined by the Supreme Court is a
"clear majority". Yeah... pretty vague... even for the Supreme Court. But since the decision in ...1999 (I think?) debate in the House of Commons unofficially decided that something around a 60-66% majority would constitute something sizable. So yeah... no chance Ralph gets to put on a crown and rule the Western Republic of Alberta.
Does anyone here think that the Federal government would actually just let Alberta up and leave completely unilaterally? Is anyone here that naive that they would think this would be a marginally positive thing for Alberta to do?
EDIT: I cannot spell.