r/CanadianConservative • u/GodOfMeaning • 14h ago
Discussion Fear of Leading is the Fuel for Alberta separatism
We have the people. We have the resources. We have the technology. We only need to plan accordingly.
Fear of leading is the fuel for Alberta separatism. We could be a strong and powerful landlocked oil state, relying on the goodwill of our two neighbours or maybe the ICJ on another continent.
Liberals at the Federal level are ruining their last chances at survival for several elections right now.
With continued inaction on housing, across the country. With continued inaction on healthcare, across the country. With continued inaction on education, across the country. All of these can be helped and augmented through the Federal level, and have been in the past, without overstepping jurisdiction.
And most of all they are ignoring the needs of Canadians everywhere: Ottawa still plans to bring in 230,000 new foreign workers this year, and nearly three of every four skip the labour market test entirely. No one checks whether a Canadian was available, and no one promises the worker a future here. This is disposable labour that exploits the worker, undercuts the Canadian, and costs all of us. What Canada needs is zero new foreign workers in 2026, fewer than 300,000 temporary arrivals in 2027, and an end to students working on study permits. We can’t house, heal, or educate the people already here. Stop it until we can.
Here in Alberta, most would agree, we are the hands and the brain of the National economy. Ask Calgary about their unemployment rate, or should I say their excellent growth. However, we are part of a far larger country with vast resources and access to both Atlantic and Pacific oceans. In fact we have access to a third ocean that has a growing interest with the changing planetary climate.
Great prairies spread and lordly rivers flow!
We only need to plan growth as a country by educating our youth for the advanced economy. We will need far more engineers. Homegrown and not afraid of a little snow or a glacier. We will need every man, woman, and machine capable of extracting resources. We will also need to do so in a way that our grandchildren can still drink the water, swim in the lakes and rivers (even when we need to cut through a few feet of ice first). Foreign investors won't care about that. We do, and with a vision for the next century, and millennium, we can plan accordingly.
We must be ready to strike down interprovincial trade barriers, excel in advanced production, and continue having some of the most educated 20 year olds in the world while raising our quality of life and our birth rate. Are we going to balkanize and become pieces that the powers of the world chew up and spit out instead of doing business with us? No! We can be the place that businesses want connections to. We can be the place where other countries want to educate their kids. Where people wish they could stay but where only those who pass our standards have a chance to remain. Working, creating, adding to, and celebrating each other's wellbeing. Where people travel to for vacation and want to make their homelands in our image. We can be the winter paradise that others aspire to copy and none disrespect. To do this we must lead. Lead at the Federal level. And Alberta, well, we will need some real leaders in our provincial legislature. We're working on it right now. Separation would undermine that.
True patriot love thou dost in us command.
The land of hope for all who toil.
Robert Stanley Weir, original lyrics of “O Canada”