After the federal elections | Albertans are mobilizing for the separation of Canada

(Edmonton) Katheryn Speck said that she was once a Canadian nationalist, that she had traveled around the world with a maple leaf on her backpack and that she had lived in Quebec to become perfectly bilingual.

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On Saturday, she was one of the hundreds of people who gathered before the Alberta Legislative Assembly to support the separation of Canada. Several people have brandished Albertan flags and some have even wooded the American flag.

“I thought it was a beautiful and fantastic country. But now I’m so disappointed. I am literally destroyed that we will never be represented in this country and that there is no chance of changing government, ”said Mr.^me Speck.

Earlier this week, the government of Prime Minister Danielle Smith proposed a bill to lower the criteria for the holding of a referendum. Although M^me Smith has told journalists that she would not presume questions that the Albertans could submit in the ballot, this measure would allow citizens to more easily ask for a vote for the secession of Canada.

The electoral victory of the federal liberals on Monday also prompted certain residents of the province to demand an outing.

M^me Speck explained that the national energy policy of the 1980s had eroded its Canadian pride. Today, after a decade of liberal policies which, she said, blocked the pipelines and hampered the energy sector of the province, she thinks that there is no solution under the Confederation.

“Once the votes were counted in Ontario, the election is over. We no longer count. We have never counted, ”she said.

Hannah Henze, a 17-year-old girl present at the rally on Saturday, said that she might have had an opinion different from separation if the conservatives had won.

“If (Pierre) Hairy was in power, I think we would have much more hope than a third or a fourth liberal mandate, which would only ruin our country,” said Hannah Henze.

Leo Jensen said Canadians fear losing jobs in the automotive sector due to US President Donald Trump’s customs duties, but that they do not seem to be concerned about job protection in the Alberta oil and gas sector.

“I do not see how a province like Quebec can appropriate all our dirty money, but it will not leave a dirty pipeline crossing Quebec to finance an oil refinery in New Brunswick,” said Jensen.

A few dozen counter-demonstrators have tried to disturb the rally, several brandishing signs claiming that separation would violate the treaties with First Nations.

Piikani nation chief Troy Knowlton, said in a letter earlier this week that it was understandable that many residents of the West were frustrated that their rejection of the Federal Liberal Party in the elections did not have any repercussions elsewhere. However, he said that Alberta did not have the power to interfere with the treaties or deny them.

During her program provincial telephone radio on Saturday, the Prime Minister said that she fully respected rights from treaties.

“Everything I do changes the relationship of Alberta with Ottawa. First Nations have their own relationship with Ottawa, and it is inscribed in the treaties. That does not change, ”said Mr.^me Smith. In March, she threatened to provoke a “national unity crisis” if the next Prime Minister did not pay a list of her requirements within six months, but reiterated his support for a sovereign Alberta this week in a united Canada.

Susan Westernaier, participant in the rally, said he believed that everything would be better if Alberta separated.

“We have oil, we have the resources. Everything is fine, “she said, stressing that she believed that Monday’s election was rigged.