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Originally Posted by belsarius
Alberta does not extract/export resources - companies do. Alberta has the power to regulate and create the rules surrounding development and extraction of the resources. The Federal government is in charge of all interprovincial trade and exporting goods to another country.
There is no "constitutional crisis" regarding exporting goods. It belongs to the Feds because at the point of export, it is no longer "Alberta" resources, those rights were sold to a company who now has to follow federal laws to export that product.
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It's probably more accurate for me to call it a "unity crisis".
If the Canadian govt decided to actually do it, the result would be exactly that...a unity crisis.
It would have an effect on the public sentiment even larger than the NEP did. Despite some comments here, large numbers of Albertans don't want to be a vassal state.