Jagmeet Singh and the Alberta Separatist Movement
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Summary
Did Jagmeet Singh inadvertently stir up Alberta Separatism? Well, it's not quite that simple, but it's a good one to start off with, and it's certainly not one that you'd want to miss.
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Did Jagmeet Singh inadvertently stir up Alberta separatism? Now, I know it may sound a bit
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outlandish, but hear me out. On December 5th, 2024, the Conservatives put forward a non-confidence
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motion against the minority government, which if passed, would trigger an election. Jagmeet
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Singh got in the way of this motion by voting against it. Why? Well, if that motion had passed,
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it would trigger an immediate election, meaning parliament would be dissolved before February 25th,
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2025. Why is that date so important? Because February 25th, 2025 marks Jagmeet Singh's
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six years in parliament, making him eligible for his pension. So Jagmeet Singh, who is,
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by the way, a very wealthy man, decided against toppling the at the time wildly unpopular liberal
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government for the sake of his pension. Polling suggests that had the motion passed and an
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election was called soon after, the conservatives would have won a landslide victory with more than
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20 points ahead of the liberals the same party that stated alberta premier daniel smith's list
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of demands as being reasonable meaning that albertan energy projects wouldn't be constantly
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stifled had pierre's party come into power but they didn't thanks to jug meat what then ended
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up happening was mark carney being shoehorned in as the leader of the liberals the man who went on
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to run against the fear of trump rather than run for his would-be constituents canadians and then
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went on to appoint a horrendous cabinet with yet again another activist as environment minister
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yet another middle finger to alberta from the federal government albertans of course didn't
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take too kindly to any of this and so the separatist movement began to pick up steam so much
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so that a recent angus reed poll showed that 36 of albertans would be in favor of separating from
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Canada. And remember, had Jagmeet Singh not voted against the non-confidence motion, the events
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would have transpired very differently. Am I reaching a little bit? Maybe. But I need you
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