As I contemplate an Independent Alberta – Republic of Alberta? – I am filled with excitement and confidence. Because we have been a reasonably efficient provincial government with a highly skilled bureaucracy, there will be minimum disruption to almost all government responsibilities within the New Alberta.
Those espousing separation have put a great deal of thought, planning and research into this project. Money (or lack of) will not be a barrier as all our taxation (i.e. equalization) will remain in Alberta. We do not plan and will not become the 51st State.
There are many reasons to leave Canada. Here are a few:
(1) Bill C-69. An act to enact the Impact Assessment Act and the Canadian Energy Regulator Act, to amend the Navigation Protection Act and to make consequential amendments to other acts. Also known as the "No More Pipelines Act".
(2) According to Neils Veldhuis of the Fraser Institute (Vancouver B.C.), May 8, 2025, "Before Donald Trump's tariff attack on our economy became a rallying cry for Canadians, there was already widespread recognition of Canada's poor economic performance and increasing dissatisfaction with federal leadership. But the introduction of U.S. tariffs and Trumps's combative rhetoric around Canadian sovereignty shifted the political conversation and ultimately the election itself."
Before those distractions,"exit polls showed that a majority of Canadians believe the country is on the wrong track and that substantial policy shifts are needed."
(3) The Canadian Taxpayer Waste Watch Report (May 30,2025) states "The Federal government added 99,000 bureaucrats since 2016. That massive growth means you're paying for 358,000 federal bureaucrats".
Plus, the federal government "handed out more than one million pay raises between 2020 and 2023, and rubber stamped more than $1.5 billion in bonuses since 2015. Despite all the bonuses, pay raises and extra bureaucrats, federal departments still struggle to meet half of their own performance targets every year."
(4) Juno News, May 30,2025, reported: "Canada took in 817,000 new immigrants in the first four months of 2025 . . . this figure makes a continuance of aggressive immigration intake despite pledges by PM Mark Carney to temper the flow of non-permanent immigrants."
(5) The many anti-Israel protests that have escalated across the country, especially in Toronto and Montreal, resulting in disruptive and hateful behaviour towards Jews and Jewish institutions. This is not the Canada that I grew up in.
As a member of the National Firearms Association, I am very proud of this organization for their commitment to the use, handling and storage of firearms. They also contribute many hours to teaching youth the value of shooting and hunting in a safe and enjoyable manner.
My grandsons hunt in the mountains using horses and a variety of firearms. They sleep in a tent and live off the land for days at a time. They are also excellent marksmen, assuring that an animal is killed with one clean shot and doesn't suffer.
Our heritage, our history and our culture have become meaningless for the past two decades as a new breed of Canadians have embraced woke ideology, that is DEI – diversity, equity and inclusion. Supposedly, this makes us all the same, except for white people of European descent.
We are the colonizers who destroyed Indigenous culture and forced them into servitude.
Judeo-Christian values which formed the basis of our social obligations and justice system are quickly being diminished.
Many Canadians place abortion and sex change as top priorities along with the very expensive and very inefficient public health care.
The Mounties are no better and no worse than any other police force (Ontario and Quebec have had provincial police for decades); the maple leaf and our national anthem might inspire emotion but do nothing to promote freedom or security. Tradition means nothing if it keeps us trapped in a system that offers little hope for future generations.
Leave Canada? The answer is yes.
Mary Flemming,
Innisfail
