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Originally Posted by 14Roman14
There are definitely a few of you very passionate about signing and getting signatures to stay in Canada.
What are some of the major reasons you would not support Western independence and some of the major advantages you see for Albertans if we stay?
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Our economy would be in the toilet overnight. Who would give us favourable trade terms? The country we just left out of spite, or the one that's already happy to ignore trade agreements with allies to try to bully them into agreeing to worse ones.
I said it to someone else earlier, but Alberta would be independent shorter than Texas or California were. The US is already funding Alberta separatism, at least according to one of the people behind it. They'd immediately use economic pressure to gain Alberta as a territory.
And if you think Alberta's position within Canada is bad, then you'd really hate that deal; things would be 10x worse as an American territory. They'd extract our resources for profit and leave us with nothing. They'd give us the Puerto Rico treatment with no voting rights.
If Alberta had 10x the population, a stronger economy, and wasn't landlocked, then maybe it would be a different story.
Call me crazy, but I'd rather find real solutions than cut off my nose to spite my face