{"id":6955,"date":"2026-10-17T19:11:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T19:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=6955"},"modified":"2026-10-17T19:11:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T19:11:32","slug":"alberta-home-to-the-worlds-4th-largest-oil-reserves-will-vote-on-a-first-step-to-leaving-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=6955","title":{"rendered":"Alberta, home to the world\u2019s 4th-largest oil reserves, will vote on a first step to leaving Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/GettyImages-2274062072-e1792259033431.jpg?w=2048\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For decades, Alberta separatism was a fringe cause. On Monday, voters in Canada\u2019s oil heartland will decide whether to take the first step toward a referendum on leaving the country.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alberta, home to the world\u2019s fourth-largest proven oil reserves, is not voting to leave Canada on Oct. 19. Instead, voters will decide\u00a0whether the province\u00a0should remain in Canada or begin the legal process toward a future\u00a0referendum on separation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, who called the vote but supports remaining in Canada, has said that support for starting the separation process, which was around 23% in a recent poll, is \u201cstill too high for my liking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alberta has long feuded with the federal government over oil and federal power. Liberal prime ministers\u00a0Pierre Trudeau\u00a0and, decades later, his son\u00a0Justin\u00a0became deeply unpopular in the province over energy policy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Justin Trudeau\u2019s government\u00a0imposed a national carbon tax\u00a0and other climate measures that Alberta leaders said hurt its oil industry. Yet separatist parties typically drew only 1% or 2% of the vote,\u00a0former Alberta Premier Jason Kenney\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then came the pandemic and\u00a0the Freedom Convoy, which paralyzed parts of Ottawa, the Canadian capital, and blocked major Canada-U.S. border crossings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey needed a new cause,\u201d Kenney told The Associated Press. \u201cAnd it naturally morphed into separatism.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pandemic-era restrictions supercharged separatism<\/h4>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jeff Rath, a leader of the independence movement, said federal vaccine rules preventing unvaccinated Canadians from flying were his breaking point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf Trudeau won\u2019t let me leave Alberta, I\u2019m just going to pick up my whole province and go,\u201d Rath recalled telling a friend. \u201cCOVID was really the straw that broke the camel\u2019s back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA lot of people were radicalized by the convoy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2022 Freedom Convoy began over vaccine requirements for cross-border truckers but grew into a\u00a0broader revolt against pandemic restrictions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kenney said people mobilized over anger at globalization, vaccines and pandemic restrictions, while social media allowed previously isolated activists to find one another and organize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey found each other and they found a cause,\u201d Kenney said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kenney said the movement also became more professional, building organizations, raising money and drawing in political operatives with campaign and fundraising experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also sees substantial overlap between separatist activists and people who support Russian President Vladimir Putin or believe conspiracy theories about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kenney stressed he was describing activists, not typical separation voters, whom he characterized as frustrated Albertans sending Ottawa a message.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kenney said the MAGA movement has been \u201cinspirational\u201d for some separatist activists. He said they \u201ctried to infiltrate with at least some success\u201d the United Conservative Party he founded. Smith replaced Kenney in 2022 after appealing to United Conservative Party members angry over COVID-19 restrictions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLiterally, you can look at the players,\u201d Kenney said of the convoy and separatist movements. \u201cIt\u2019s the same people.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Carney finds unusual support in Alberta<\/h4>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prime Minister Mark Carney\u00a0has made getting Alberta oil to new markets a national priority and backs a\u00a0proposed pipeline\u00a0to the West Coast. His more business- and energy-friendly policies, along with his opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s trade war and 51st-state rhetoric, have made the federal Liberal leader unusually popular in conservative Alberta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kenney, one of the most prominent conservative critics of Trudeau\u2019s approach to Alberta, said Carney \u201cspeaks as an Albertan,\u201d understands the province\u2019s grievances and aspirations, and is moving in the right direction on energy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rath called Carney a \u201cformidable opponent,\u201d saying \u201cevery major politician\u201d in Alberta and Canada is against the separatists and acknowledged an uphill battle. He said he would be \u201cthrilled\u201d with more than 30% of the vote \u2014 well short of a majority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCanada is facing real threats to our economy, to our security, to our way of life,\u201d Carney said. \u201cWe have to be strong and we are stronger together.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Activists go to Washington<\/h4>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alberta sends roughly 90% of its crude oil exports to the United States, and separatists have taken their campaign directly to Washington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rath confirmed he and other independence advocates met with U.S. State Department officials three times and presented a document outlining what an independent Alberta could offer the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rath claimed people involved in the meetings were going directly to the White House and that a possible oil pipeline through the U.S. to the Pacific was \u201cliterally a topic of our last meeting with the U.S. State Department.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The State Department said that \u201cThe Department regularly meets with a wide range of representatives. The vote is a decision for the people of Alberta.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kenney called the outreach \u201cbonkers,\u201d saying people with \u201czero democratic mandate\u201d were discussing with a foreign government \u201cthe status of a separate state that does not exist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has called Alberta \u201ca natural partner.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Future of separatism<\/h4>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keith Wilson, another Alberta independence leader who was lead counsel for the 2022 convoy organizers, said separatists see the vote as a way to give Alberta more leverage in dealing with Ottawa, even short of independence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat\u2019s right, because it\u2019s called leverage. It\u2019s called negotiation,\u201d Wilson said. He said he would accept substantial structural changes to Alberta\u2019s relationship with Ottawa short of independence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t think it will recede,\u201d Kenney said of the separatist movement in Alberta. Even 10% to 20% support, he noted, would far exceed separatists\u2019 historic vote share. If low turnout pushed them toward 30%, \u201cthey\u2019re going to be even more emboldened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat\u2019s not a threat to Canada,\u201d Kenney said. \u201cBut it is a threat to the conservative movement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alberta is not Canada\u2019s only national-unity challenge. Quebec voters returned\u00a0the separatist Parti Quebecois\u00a0to power Oct. 5, although\u00a0support for independence\u00a0remains around 30% and its leader has said he will not hold a referendum while Trump is U.S. president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quebec voters have twice rejected independence, most recently by a razor-thin margin in a 1995 referendum.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Alberta #home #worlds #4thlargest #oil #reserves #vote #step #leaving #Canada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, Alberta separatis&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10081,10080,1201,232,3791,717,4860,1607,140,2044],"class_list":["post-6955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance-news","tag-4thlargest","tag-alberta","tag-canada","tag-home","tag-leaving","tag-oil","tag-reserves","tag-step","tag-vote","tag-worlds"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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