2) Alberta's population is getting younger, more highly skilled and better-paid. As the demographic and financial disconnect between Alberta and the rest of Canada grows, these younger, more highly skilled, and better-paid Albertans will be forced to pay ever higher volumes of taxes to Ottawa to compensate for increasingly older, less skilled, and lower income Canadians elsewhere in the country.
The core issue is pretty simple. While Quebecois – and to a slightly lesser degree the rest of Canada – now need Alberta to maintain their standard of living, the Albertans now need not to be part of Canada in order to maintain theirs.
3) Unlike, say, Puerto Rico, which is (and will continue to be) a welfare state and where Spanish is the native language, Alberta is vibrant, wealthy in energy, and English-speaking. Culturally, Alberta is more in sync with America than is Puerto Rico. As a state, Zeihan claims that Alberta would be per capita the richest. Some will say Democrats would object to adding a "white" state to the Union. Yes, but this knee-jerk racism of the Democrats could be placated by the prospect of having more tax revenue flow into Washington.
If California would like to secede,I’d gladly trade her for Alberta.
What would we do with all those kangaroos?
Finally America could be maple syrup independent.
Hood idea
Trade California for Alberta.
MAGA - Make Alberta Great Again!
While it looks good on paper, don’t expect Albertans to vote for it right away.
The “separation vote” percentage in Alberta has never gotten above 20% ... most people here are patriotic and aren’t ready to give up on Canada yet, we just freaking hate Justin Trudeau and his band of bleeding-heart idiots
(BTW I live in Calgary)
I have some Shirttail Relatives who live in Alberta.
I also have some Shirthead Relatives who live in Minnesota.
Believe it or not, you're likely to find stronger opposition to the idea of joining the U.S. in Alberta than in most other provinces in Canada. The rationale for this is simple: As bad as it is for them in Canada now, they know it would be far, far worse if they had to deal with a swamp-infested den of corruption known as the U.S. Federal government. Ottawa is a bunch of crooked bureaucrats, but they're feckless and often inept. Washington is far, far worse.
I see the problem for the socialists being 2 senators and 6 Representatives that likely would be republicans. - tom
And that's why the Canadian government will never let Alberta secede. It's the golden goose, the gravy train, the pot o'gold. They can't let it go or they'd have to earn their own money.
I doubt Albertans would want to send their wealth to Washington any better than to Ottawa.
And as far as making it a 51st state? Fuggedaboutit.
Ain’t happening with the Democrats no more than Puerto Rico is feasible with the Republicans.
Yay, we’d get the Stampede!
This idea has become more than a hypothetical consideration at several times over the years… particularly when Quebec raised the spectre of separation from the rest of Canada. In 1987, there was the Meech Lake Accord and in 1992, the Charlottetown Accord… both proposed a bunch of constitutional amendments (mostly designed to appease Quebec) and both were rejected (the Charlottetown Accord by national referendum). Regardless, the side-feature of course of Quebec separating was the question of what would become of the rest of the country. At the time, some of us were theorizing that it would actually result in the creation of four distinct entities… Quebec, the group of provinces east of Quebec and the provinces west of Quebec. However of the provinces west of Quebec, it seemed like BC and Alberta would both probably rather join the States as opposed to the other provinces west of Quebec. The accords were rejected, it seems that notions of Quebec separating have died down and thus questions involving what might happen to Alberta and BC have been put to sleep….. for a while.
Trudeau is in office because all the leftists in Alberta voted for him. Why would we want to add yet another blue state to the union?
JoMa
Alberta, come on down!
I’d love to see us conquer the beta nation of Canada .
Alberta? No thanks - we’ll take British Columbia instead.
Such a far fetched idea it is not worth the discussion.
If they came in, they wouldn't necessarily be a reliably Republican state.