Katheryn Speck said she used to be a Canadian nationalist, travelled the world with a maple leaf on her backpack and once lived in Quebec so she could become fluently bilingual.
But on Saturday she was among hundreds of people who rallied at the Alberta Legislature to support separation from Canada, with many in the crowd waving Alberta flags and a few even displaying the U.S. Stars and Stripes.
“I thought it was a beautiful, fantastic country. But now I’m so disappointed. I’m literally crushed that we’ll never be represented in this country and there’s never a chance of changing the government,” Speck said.
Earlier this week, Premier Danielle Smith’s government proposed legislation that would lower the bar for holding a referendum.
Why is their sense of national unity tied to the success of an industry? Will PEI vote to separate because Canadians aren’t eating enough potatoes?
They are so brainwashed it boggles the mind. Alberta could be a solar energy powerhouse, they could build shit, develop a manufacturing sector, but no, it has to be fucking oil and gas forever.
Oil and Gas forever, but also won’t build local infrastructure to fully use it, and instead have to ship it elsewhere to refine it etc.
I’ve heard the PEI separatists are calling for a high speed potato-conveyor tube to transport potatoes for shippment to China.
They’ll call it the Trans Canada Potatube. And it’ll only cost $35 billion and never recoup it’s costs.