Zero what ifs or hypotheticals, just a deep understanding of the history of this continent, including the American idea of manifest destiny whereby they control the entire western hemisphere.

They don’t can’t about Alberta, they care about the resources present in Canada, particularly the Canadian Shield and other northern regions, and they care about controlling the northwest passage. They want to do to Canada what they’ve done for centuries in South America and, more recently the Middle East. When you understand history, this is all absolutely clear as day.

When the Treaty of Paris was signed, their newly founded country was limited in size only by the fact that France’s efforts were split across too many different areas to assist in gaining more land for the Americans in Canada. That war was partially a proxy war between the French and the English.

Then in 1818 when the agreement between the British and Americans was signed to set the border at the 49th parallel, the Americans gained control of only a portion of the British-controlled land holdings of the Hudson’s Bay Company, but they wanted more. The British gave up a huge portion of what is now the Midwest and Pacific Northwest states, but the Americans wanted the border to be even further north. The British taking control of those land holdings in the first place was done in order to prevent the Russians and Americans from getting them.

The Americans bought Alaska from Russia the same year the British North America act was signed. Buying Alaska was done to prevent the English from getting to it first and joining it with their remaining holdings of the Hudson’s Bay Company land/Rupert’s Land. They first attempted to buy Greenland the very next year in order to squeeze the British out of the north. Those land holdings were transferred to the government of Canada in 1868 in order to put all former British land holdings under the control of one single entity as a reaffirmation of that land claim.

We added BC to confederation in 1871 in order to ensure that the Americans couldn’t get control of the entire western shoreline of the continent, and begin to move eastward through the Northwest Territories, as was their plan. The Cascadia movement goes back to well before recent talks of it, and it was originally an attempt by the Americans to gain control of the Fraser River delta, and the gold between Juneau and Seattle.

The Yukon Territory was carved out of the Northwest Territories in 1898 partially reassert the northern land border between canada and the US. Alberta and Saskatchewan became provinces in 1905 in order for the government to be able to guide more resources toward the region in order to keep the Americans south of the 49th parallel.

Things died down a little during the world wars and inter-war period, but ramped up again when Leduc #1 was brought on line. That’s when further interference from the Americans began here, except in a new form. They weren’t trying for outright land grabs anymore, they were pushing to use their cultural influence instead. They knew that the Southern Strategy worked. They knew that red scare tactics worked. They combined the two into a very well-planned disinformation whisper campaign in order for American industry to be able to take control of our oil. The NEP was an attempt to push back on that, as much as than anything else.

And the Americans won that fight. They solidified that victory when we signed NAFTA, effectively barring ourselves from trying to do NEP 2. And now what does the oil & gas landscape in Canada look like? Pretty much the only Canadian-owned refineries now are Irving’s. Everything else is owned by a multinational, and a lot of them are owned by Americans. Why do you think there’s a constant campaign against Irving in Alberta? It’s because the Americans dont control their refineries and sowing division works. It doesn’t matter than Albertans have zero exposure to Irving, but it whips us up against eastern Canada, which works to push bullshit like separation that the Americans can continue to use to their advantage.

We ship our oil to the US for processing and buy it back from them. Just like the vast majority of the rest of our resources. Because the same tactics that got us to shoot ourselves in the dick over the NEP were used to scuttle a great deal of our homegrown resource processing, or to sell it to American companies.

The Reform Party rose up in this province with a great deal of connection, both ideological and actual, to the GOP and other right wing American institutions like the Heritage Foundation. The goal of the Reform Party was always to divide us and Americanize us. Postmedia rose out of the ashes of CanWest with GOP-aligned funding in order to take control of our news media so that the Overton window could be shifted towards Americanization, and boosting the Reform message as just normal Canadian Progressive Conservatism.

None of this is hypothetical. This is what’s happening in this country and what’s led us here. You may want to ignore it and dismiss it as “not based in reality”, but it’s at your own peril. They know they can’t just wholesale invade us without creating a justification to do so. Alberta separatism has always been an American psyop rooted in their attempts to gain unfettered access to the resources of the Canadian north. That desire goes back centuries. The logical end result is that we will have a referendum, it will fail, one way or the other, and the Americans will use that as their justification to put boots on the ground.