Imagine it is Oct. 22 and you wake up to learn that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberals have been re-elected to govern for another four years. Imagine the following as a possible, some would say probable, consequence: western independence.
Some will say this is fear-mongering. Some, extortion or blackmail, suggesting I’m attempting to frighten or threaten voters into casting their ballots for the Conservatives. Some will undoubtedly proclaim I am just another western whiner, or worse, a traitor.
For those of us who truly believe that this federal election is by far the most important in our lifetime, no matter how much we may wish otherwise, western separation is no longer unthinkable, or impossible.
I believe that before eastern Canadians, and those from Canada’s middle-east (Ontario and Quebec) go behind the cardboard to mark their ballots, they should clearly understand the consequence of voting for Trudeau.
By now all westerners surely understand exactly what Justin Trudeau is intent upon … the premature phasing out of our oil and gas industry. With his passage of bills C-48 (B.C. tanker ban), C-69 (no more pipelines), combined with his federally imposed carbon tax, he has surpassed even his father’s National Energy Program of 1980 in crippling the economy of Alberta and Saskatchewan. And we know he will interpret his re-election as a green light to continue along this destructive path.
Rather than holding a referendum on whether to continue equalization payments, I believe that with polls now showing majority support for western independence, should Trudeau win, the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan and the British Columbia Peace River region (the half of my former constituency east of the Rocky Mountains) should prepare now to immediately hold post-election referendums. And even if the referendum in northern B.C. was non-binding, it would certainly prove instructive!
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See Also:
(1) Advice on Western separatism: don’t take it more seriously than it takes itself
