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- 17 de Ene, 2021
This is why you need to look in the mirror. Yes overall - within the Canadian system - Alberta puts in more than it takes - but do you actually realize how much it takes to run every single bureaucratic system the average Albertan resident expects to just work? Do you understand the US is not likely to give Alberta a sweetheart deal when they have no reason to? Do you comprehend there is a lot of detail concerning sovereign states which can be conveniently ignored currently since it's not front and centre in the referendum debate?And where do you think Canada gets its money from? Or do you think that the entirety of Canada’s taxpayers are funding Alberta without a single tax dollar being spent on other provinces? When Alberta leaves Alberta will be taking its taxpayers with it, and Alberta taxpayers pay more then the national average.
1. Nobody expects separation to be instantaneous. At bare minimum there will be at least a year to set everything up, possibly multiple years.
2. America is Alberta’s biggest trade partner, using its currency makes perfect sense. And Albertans won’t be forced to immediately give up their Canadian dollars as doing so would cause the dollar to immediately crash which would have major ramifications for the rest of the country.
Nobody has a switch that immediately changes everything over. It will take time and that time is accounted or in the process
For one example consider sovereign debt: do you really expect the best and brightest in Alberta's separatist movement to get away without a requirement to take on a share of Canada's trillion+ debt once put to the test? Do you actually expect the province to simply materialize a new public sector pension scheme without major pain points around funding and divesting from Ottawa's federal plan? You honestly think Washington won't put the screws to Alberta to ensure it becomes a compliant client state and screw it out of tariffs?
As stated I want an independent Alberta like you, but I strongly disagree with it being an easy process. No matter the time frame money doesn't care and much like many central European countries it becomes an argument less about wanting a sugar daddy and much as deciding who you want to be your sugar daddy.