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Brexit, Alberta and all that

 separatist movements have always existed, as unions between different antiques do not always match people‘s expectation. To us here in Great Britain. It is a link with Europe that has always felt unnatural for some good and not so good reasons. For some reason, the United Kingdom has always felt a closer kinship to the United States, then to Europe. Unfortunately, Great Britain is discovery that there’s no reciprocity.

Yesterday, one of the richest provinces in Canada, Alberta, underwent A referendum with regards to whether Alberta should seek to separate itself from the Canadian entity. In addition to that question, there were an additional 12 questions that were there to appease most people from Alberta.

Today, the results are out. In a nutshell, a route, the yay only scored 23%. The knees scored over 76%. In addition, and like they refer them and quebec several decades ago, it was essentially asking the population for a mandate to negotiate with the rest of Canada.

I suspect, that the involvement of several far right American groups in the whole process has greatly soured the appetite of many people Mel Alberta, to consider a yes. It was well known, that the leaders of the yes movement or deeply embedded with the Republican Party in the United States.

For now, the issue has been put to bed. With this level of rejection, there’s no way forward for those who want independence, or or correctly a stronger union with the Americans.

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