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Re: Meanwhile in Alberta, Canada, They Just Gave Carney the One-Finger Salute

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In article <lnsB448B7063DC9F6F089P2473@0.0.0.1>,
Leroy N. Soetoro <leroysoetoro@americans-first.com> wrote:
>https://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2026/05/04/meanwhile-in-alberta-canada-th
>ey-just-gave-carney-the-one-finger-salute-n4952502 
>
>If Alberta could vote in U.S. elections, President Donald Trump would
>have won in a landslide there all three times he ran for the White
>House. Alberta is one of Canada’s 10 provinces and the closest thing the
>country has to a red state. 
>
>Calgary and Edmonton are its major cities, but it’s not the cities that
>define it. It’s rich in natural resources like oil, natural gas,
>minerals, timber, and more. A western province, it’s defined by striking
>beauty and a character similar to America’s own western heritage:
>self-sufficiency, rugged individualism, hard work, and an appreciation
>for freedom. 
>
>That affinity for freedom is what’s putting Alberta in the news these
>days. 
>
>Do you recall how Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney has been saddling
>up to China to score points with the world’s communists and fascists? 
>
>
>HustleBitch
>@HustleBitch_
>·
>Follow
>?? HOLY SH*T!   PRIME MINISTER MARK CARNEY JUST SAID IT OUT LOUD ??
>
>“I believe the progress that we have made and the partnership (with
>China) sets us up well for the New… World… Order.” 
>
>Not rushed.
>Not off the cuff.
>
>He pauses between every word - New… World… Order - like Show more
>
>https://twitter.com/i/status/2012007975158677940
>
>While he’s been doing that, a persistent group of Canadians in Alberta
>has just crossed the threshold needed to put a question on the ballot in
>the form of a referendum. The question, which may be posed to Alberta
>voters, will center on whether they want to be part of Canada any
>longer. 
>
>
>Rise Of Alberta
>@RiseOfAlberta
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>Follow
>?? BREAKING: 301,620 signatures have officially been announced for the
>Alberta independence petition. 
>
>That is far beyond the required threshold to trigger the Alberta
>independence vote on October 19th. 
>
>A massive day for the Alberta Independence movement.
>
>More to the point, a growing organization called Stay Free Alberta (SFA)
>has said it collected 301,620 signatures for a petition to trigger the
>process of putting a referendum before voters that would lead to
>Alberta’s separation from Canada. The SFA organizers drove a convoy to
>the Alberta elections office with boxes and boxes of signed petitions.
>The group only needed to collect 178,000 signatures, and it vastly
>exceeded that number. Alberta’s population is just shy of 5 million
>people. 
>
>SFA supporters accompanied the petitions to the elections office and
>staged an impromptu rally, waving their Alberta flags as the petitions
>were unloaded and delivered to election officials. 
>
>The head of SFA, Mitch Sylvestre, spoke to his assembled supporters,
>reading from a letter to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, “This process
>shows that Albertans are engaged and this is an issue people want to
>have a say on….We look forward to your government receiving this clear
>expression of the democratic will of Albertans and advancing the next
>steps.” 
>
>What are those next steps?
>
>The first order of business is to verify all those signatures to make
>sure that enough real people signed them to hit that threshold of
>178,000. But hold on, eh? 
>
>Not unlike America, Canada has its share of activist judges, and one of
>them stopped this process in its tracks as she now gives weight to a
>court challenge from a group of Canadian Indians called Alberta First
>Nations. They maintain that this petition, which completely adheres to
>and is informed by Canadian law, violates their rights under a federal
>treaty with the native population. 
>
>Canada’s CBC network reported that “Smith has previously said she'd put
>the question to a referendum if enough signatures are collected and
>verified.” 
>
>Jeff Rath, who is a lawyer for SFA, told the CBC, "As far as we're
>concerned, whatever the court does or whatever Elections Alberta does at
>this point is meaningless.” He said that, for political reasons, Smith
>cannot ignore the size of this petition and the will of the people. 
>
>Well, it wouldn’t be Canada if the waters couldn’t be muddied any
>further, now would it? Another group called Forever Canadian circulated
>a petition of its own, and it has already had its signatures verified.
>No protest from Alberta First Nations on that front. 
>
>That petition drive reportedly collected 404,293 signatures and is
>intended to pressure Canada to decide, as a matter of policy, that
>Alberta must remain part of Canada. But petitions aren’t votes. So when
>you have one group petitioning to put something on the ballot, you can’t
>use another petition to silence the original petition…or can you? 
>
>I thought the purpose of a petition is simply to show there’s enough
>support to put something to a vote. The voters will get the final say.
>So, if Forever Canadian wants to win on this issue, wouldn’t it have to
>win at the ballot box, assuming, of course, that the powers that be
>allow Albertans to vote? 
>
>Let's get crazy and assume that eventually the First Nations group loses
>its baseless legal challenge. If that happens, Alberta’s elections
>office will then commence with signature verification on the petitions.
>Tied to this, it will do random samplings to determine whether those who
>signed the petition gave accurate information and actually live in
>Alberta. There's also some question on how voter lists are used in this
>process, and whether everyone on the lists are actual citizens and
>voters. 
>
>Amazingly, Canada actually cares about whether there are fake names on
>voter lists. Did you ever think the left would care about verifying to
>make sure that people on voter lists are actually voters? 
>
>Apparently, all you have to do to get leftists to want verified voter
>lists is circulate a petition that could actually lead to secession.
>Still, Rath isn’t worried about the hurdles they have to jump through.
>He told the CBC that SFA’s process “was pristine from start to
>finish….Every one of our canvassers was badged and numbered. Every
>person signing the petition had ID.” 
>
>I dunno. I’d like to think this will happen, but I live in America and
>have seen how the left operates here. I know it isn’t any better in
>Canada. The whole country is to the left of John Fetterman. 
>
>Leftists are creative when they want to undermine, sabotage, and steal
>your democracy. I’m not holding my breath here. But that won’t stop me
>from daydreaming about Alberta as the 51st state of the good ole USA.
>You know Alberta would vote red and get some Electoral College
>representation. That’s enough for me to ponder the possibilities over a
>cup of coffee. 
>
>Just think of it. We'd get the Edmonton Oilers. We’d have access to more
>energy resources than we could handle, drastically reducing America’s
>dependence on the Middle East for oil. And it would weaken Canada’s
>leftist regime’s geopolitical hand in Ottawa. Carney and his successors
>would be forced to do some real groveling in Washington if he ever lost
>Alberta. 
>
>I’m about to go start a fresh pot. How do you like your coffee? 
>
>
>-- 
>November 5, 2024 - Congratulations President Donald Trump.  We look 
>forward to America being great again.
>
>We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that 
>stupid people won't be offended.
>
>Every day is an IQ test. Some pass, some, not so much.
>
>Thank you for cleaning up the disasters of the 2008-2017, 2020-2024 Obama 
>/ Biden / Harris fiascos, President Trump.
>
>Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the 
>The World According To Garp.  Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood 
>queer liberal democrat donors.

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Meanwhile in Alberta, Canada, They Just Gave Carney the One-Finger Salute "Leroy N. Soetoro" <leroysoetoro@americans-first.com> - 2026-05-11 00:59 +0000
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