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Great White North

Carney FLIPS OUT After Governor General To Approve Alberta And Saskatchewan’s Secession

2025-06-06

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"LEGAL LANDSCAPE": Senate Engages in Discourse on Alberta and Saskatchewan's Secession Rights

Senator Marc Gold addressed the Senate, asserting that no province can break away without the consent of Parliament. Drawing from his background as a former law professor, Gold emphasized that this issue is fundamentally "a matter of law," though he refrained from detailing how such laws would be implemented.

"This government is dedicated to maintaining the strength and unity of our nation, and we will persist in that mission," Gold stated during Thursday's question period, as reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.

In the year 2000, Parliament enacted the Clarity Act, designed to ensure that any referendum question regarding a province's potential secession is clearly articulated, reflecting the true will of its populace on whether they wish to leave Canada and establish independence.

The preamble of the Clarity Act underscores: "The Supreme Court has affirmed that neither international law nor the Constitution of Canada grants the National Assembly, legislature, or Government of Québec the right to unilaterally secede from Canada."

During the question period, Senator Paula Simons inquired about the applicability of the act should the Prairie provinces seek to separate.

"The opening line of the preamble specifically references Québec," she noted.

"In light of the increasingly vocal separatist sentiments emerging from Alberta and Saskatchewan, could you clarify whether the Clarity Act extends to provinces beyond Québec?"

Gold responded, "This is not merely a matter of opinion; it is a matter of law."

"The Clarity Act is applicable to all provinces."

Simons pressed further, asking, "Could you outline the obstacles a province would need to overcome to achieve separation?"

"If I were in a law school classroom, that would be a question I would be eager to explore," Gold replied, leaving the matter unexplained.

Posted by:3dc

#15 Can we get Yukon too?

Posted by: Hellfish 2025-06-06 22:49

#14

Posted by: Hellfish 2025-06-06 22:42

#13 @#3 - Those prime numbers can be pesky the bigger they get.

Posted by: DooDahMan 2025-06-06 22:34

#12 go back to the original 13 star flag design to remind us of our heritage and why we exist.

I like that! Can one of the stars be trans or gay?

Posted by: SteveS 2025-06-06 19:35

#11 Surely there should be a period as a protectorate before full statehood — it would probably take at least a decade just to bring local and provincial laws and regulations into alignment with American federal laws, regs, and the U.S. Constitution, not to mention writing a state constitution or several, depending on how they’re to be divided up, making sure the police and such understand the American way of doing things, that teachers are certified to teach American history and can do it without sneering at the folks down south as they’ve been accustomed to…

Posted by: trailing wife 2025-06-06 19:30

#10 NO additional Democrat Senators = NO PR, DC statehood

Posted by: Frank G 2025-06-06 18:51

#9 3 rows of 11 stars and 2 rows of 10 stars:



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4 rows of 8 stars and 3 rows of 7 stars:



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Posted by: Melancholic 2025-06-06 17:51

#8 I cannot figure out a fifty three star flag, though.

Add Greenland, 54=9x6.
Add Puerto Rico and Guam, 56=8x7.
Add the Marshal Islands, 64=8x8.

Posted by: Skidmark 2025-06-06 14:17

#7 Canadian "conservatives" are much more like American liberals although hopefully of the non-woke flavor.

Posted by: Difar Dave 2025-06-06 10:47

#6 Dunno. BC is just like California except they say "eh".

Posted by: Mercutio 2025-06-06 09:22

#5 #3 go back to the original 13 star flag design to remind us of our heritage and why we exist.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2025-06-06 07:55

#4 From an old friend and former colleague:

I've been following this for the last few months. Looks like a train wreck for Canada caused by their wokeratti elites. It's a good object lesson. Trump must be licking his chops at the prospect of picking up some of the western provinces as new states. These are the ones more in line with conservatism. Ontario & Quebec can stew in their own juices. We don't want them. The Maritime provinces stated back then when Quebec seemed ready to secede that they would not stay with the rump of Canada and would petition for union with the United States.

There was a clip online in which a Canadian actually read a government document not for public dissemination that stated the goal of the government was to replace the European based population by massive immigration from China, India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. It sounds just like what our wokistas have planned for us.

Posted by: Besoeker 2025-06-06 07:42

#3 Treat them like individual States if they want to be part of USA. I cannot figure out a fifty three star flag, though.

Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2025-06-06 04:36

#2 Save the western provinces, send rifles.

Posted by: EMS Artifact 2025-06-06 00:51

#1 VC just joined them.
So Western Canada wants OUT!
video

Posted by: 3dc 2025-06-06 00:16

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