29 Replies to “Survey Says”

  2. Problems with the poll:
    a) Angus Reid? Where do you think their interests lie?
    b) Given the proven proclivity for government retribution and retaliation, do you think anyone would honestly answer a poll, where the results, including phone numbers could (would?) be given to the government? Some readers will remember “Zap! You’re frozen!”

    1. Yup.
      Hi, I am Dudley Deplorable and here is my land line number.
      By the way, Edmonton is building a really big Muslim school, likely near where the 10.5 million dude bought a plaza. In 3 years, Nenshi will be Premier. And yet some think Alberta will secede? Ha Ha Ha Ha.
      I say this as someone who wishes it weren’t so. Truly.
      Have a good mothers day all you lovely mothers. I miss my old Ma.

  4. Let’s see how those “definitely would vote to stay within Canada” votes go after they’ve had a taste of Marx Carnage and the new #Libranos new social programs and economic malfeasance for another year of so…

    The federal parliament has not been sitting for more than 9 months, they haven’t imposed their new world view on AB/Sask. and they haven’t dreamt up any new taxes or ways of stifling our few remaining freedoms in 9 months, the “orders in council’s” are not serious punches in the mouths for us…

    That’ll change soon enough.
    Bend over, it’s the #Libranos

    1. Questions:
      1> What is the breakdown urban/rural?
      2> Further to #1 above, what if you take Edmonton out of the equation?
      3> What will it be when the Greatest Economist Ever (TM) goes full Net Zero and people start to lose their livelihoods, their homes, their ability to feed their family?
      4> What will it be when the Greatest Economist Ever (TM) taxes home equity?
      5> What happens if people were actually informed of the cost, both pecuniary and liberty, of living in canaduh?
      6> What if Trump throws in 100K USD to each taxpayer as suggested by some?
      7> What happens when people see how much they can save by becoming independent?
      8> What happens when 500 Billion in investment could be released into the economy. ?

      I absolutely love the part where people are more inclined to vote for independence if the First Nations oppose it. Chief Heap Big Cheque wants his big pay off- While his people live in squalor

      1. You left out 9
        What happens when someone calculates what happens to equalization if you remove the revenue from Alberta and Saskatchewan?

        1. I’ve probably left out about 20 others but its time for dinner

        2. It’s only 3% of Cdn GDP or something , can’t be that much munney.
          They shoulda had a sovereign fund like little Norway.
          HBC went under
          Peavy Mart went under
          EV battery plants poof.
          EV school bus plant in Quebec went under. Really Guibeault?
          Carbon tax went Net Zero, for the election.
          The EU will save us, from The Best Economist Ever and ourselves.

    2. Indeed. If they re-open the museum of parliament, even though it’s just a formality, the legislation that they’ll ram through to give it a veneer of legitimacy will be even more destructive than what Justin’s Liberals rammed through. What a waste of a nation…

    3. I am sympathetic to Canadians tired of Liberal abuse. Economies of scale suggest Alberta would be too small by itself, although other independent nations in the world manage. A confederation with Saskatchewan and Manitoba might work better.

      If you think pipelines to the coast would be easier than now, you are kidding yourself. You would have far less bargaining power on trade issues by yourselves than as part of Canada.

      Adding a star to the U.S. flag might work better. What you would get;

      1. Tariff-free trade with the world’s largest economy. I am pretty sure you would be net winner on this. You could grow and export wheat without the Canadian Wheat Board.

      2. Under the current President, no obstacles to exploiting your petroleum reserves and sale to the U.S.

      3. Alberta-specific police and regulatory authority. In most cases, this would, to my knowledge, not limit your government as much, except that our Bill of Rights is generally more protective of property rights and free speech.

      4. While U.S. law is currently evolving on this, licensing possession of firearms would not be possible. Possession of most of what your law call “restricted weapons” would no longer be restricted except for convicted violent criminals and some categories of mentally ill people. Permits to carry firearms would need to be issued on an equal basis to all who meet criteria about criminal history and mental health history.

      5. You could keep your existing health system. Some U.S. states have their own systems of government funding and control, such as Oregon, and I think Hawai’i

      6. You could continue mispelling “color” and “harbor.” I think over time this would change organically.

      7. You could continue using metric. In a legal sense, the U.S. is already metric. The Imperial measures are customary not mandatory. There are some Arizona highways already marked in both systems.

      8. You could continue serving poutine. Why eludes me, but Louisiana and the rest of the South have foods that mystify me.

      9. Several American states have no state income tax. By analogy, Wyoming relies on petroleum revenues. I believe our federal income tax rate is lower than what you pay right now.

      10. Extricateing yourselves from the Canadian pension system is going to be hard. Congress might use Alberta as an opportunity to try a more sensible approach than our current Social Security Ponzi scheme.

      11. Indian reservations maintain substantial sovereignty under our Constitution. They are more like a separate state than the surrounding state. I do not know the details of First Nations law. We seem to have made many of the same mistakes as Canada on this (and not to their benefit) but at least we got some awesome Westerns out of those mistakes.

  5. Those responding positively to leaving seem to be of the sentiment that they are willing to tolerate their abuses while they remain tolerable.
    Or to paraphrase
    Albertans don’t want separation necessarily, but separation if necessary.
    Smith was pretty clear what Alberta wants, unlike the spoiled child of confederation has given a list of what Ottawa needs to do.
    Carney has until the fall to make good or go pound salt.
    Ditto for the rest of the premiers that get their nose out of joint because the west is tired of being in an abusive relationship.

    1. Smith was pretty clear what Alberta wants,

      Smith doesn’t have a clew what Alberta wants. If she did, she’d have already tossed “green” energy, gotten rid of 3 levels of bureaucracy at AHS & toasted the NDP’s school curriculum updates, among others.

      She hasn’t.

    2. “Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”

  6. We are truly at a crossroads. The massive house of cards that is canaduh has been shown for what it really is. The emperor truly has no clothes when, with one swipe of a pen, the evil orange man can collapse the 10th largest economy in the world.
    The Greatest Economist Ever (TM) will burn canaduh to the ground for power. That includes saving supply management solely to preserve the Quebec power base. Failing to save the Dairy Board will trigger immediate responses from Quebec politicians. Lord knows we can’t have that happen.
    Right now we have three “have” provinces. Very soon, that will be down to two (BC is headed down the drain very quickly) and those two will be shackled by the growing regulatory framework that will be established to show the WEF what great globalists we are. Ontario will be crashing to the ground as layoffs start to take hold in the major industries that are left and will be an even bigger burden on the remaining two.
    The Greatest Economist Ever (TM) has promised more Keynesian spending. Where is the money going to come from?
    Sorry folks, the music just stopped and the band wants to be paid

  7. Shouldn’t each indigenous vote count as two ‘white’ votes?

    Question: if the Residential School “graveyards” were actually, physically, excavated … would you vote to leave? I should be a pollster. All sciencytific and whatnot

  8. The current strategy for the political class in Ontario to placate Alberta and Saskatchewan looks like it’s going to be a superficial charm offensive. Their misunderstanding of the pragmatic prairie people is almost comical. Alberta and Saskatchewan want substantive change with real timelines not meaningless words and vague promises. Premier Smith has already given the Liberals a clear list of what needs to be done.

    Quebec will likely refuse to allow oil and gas development and pipelines, forcing the federal politicians to choose between the two prairie provinces and Quebec. We all know that the federal government never says no to Quebec. A separation referendum looks inevitable, in my opinion. It’s really the only solution to the fundamental differences between Alberta/Saskatchewan and the rest of Canada. Confederation hasn’t worked for the western prairies for at least 50 years, if not longer. The only thing missing is strong leadership to promote and organize the separatist message.

    1. Number of federal ridings in SK/AB: 48
      Number of federal ridings in QC: 78

      What do you suppose which side the federal government will support?

  9. “The Angus Reid Institute conducted an online survey from May 6 – 8 2025, among a randomized sample of 790 Albertan adults and 577 Saskatchewan adults who are members of Angus Reid Forum. ”

    Self selected survey takers, in a poll paid for by Angus Reid.

    Not trustworthy, at all.

  13. The headline is provocative, it wasn’t a “call”; they were just answering a poll. Hot takes.
    And
    “Alberta (19%) or Saskatchewan (15%) say they would “definitely” vote to leave were a referendum to be held.”

    The interesting bits are questions about the effect of pipelines & B.C. policies on those who express an intention to leave.
    Both show those voting intentions are based on resentment rather than on a fixed policy.

    https://angusreid.org/referendum-alberta-saskatchewan-smith-moe/

  14. Look, I certainly support the holding of a referendum. I support all forms of folk dancing. I try not to get worked up about it, though.

  15. The Time for Saskatchewan and Alberta to Leave Canada is now!! Moe and Danielle as premiers must become leaders they have in my opinion the responsibility to Lead!
    A referendum is the first step a more impactful one would be the ” Clarity Act”
    All our people would be much better off!

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