Question for the Blame Canada / MAGA North crowd. We know you’re not proud of Canada. You tell us that every day. Does this👇 make you proud?

Alberta separatists spend more time producing weird AI videos than offering thoughtful, detailed answers to dozens of serious questions, like: - How does a landlocked statelet get coastal pipelines built? - How would Alberta negotiate a favourable separation agreement on everything from debt allocation to Canadian market access when it would require ratification by Parliament, and the nine other provinces? - If Canada is divisible, then why isn't Alberta? How would an Alberta statelet deal with partition by Edmonton, Calgary, and 48 First Nations when they insist on remaining part of Canada? Send in nonexistent troops? - When First Nations refuse to re-assign their Treaty relationships to a separate Alberta, how will you deal with dozens of blockades on highways and railways, and the end of indigenous cooperation with the energy industry? - Would Alberta freeload off Canada for its national defence? If not, how would it finance a $25 billion military (at NATO's 5% / GDP benchmark?) - How many hundreds of billions of dollars will it cost Alberta taxpayers to buy the 12% of the province's landmass owned by the Government of Canada? - How would years of protracted negotiations, or unilateral declaration of independence, maintain rather than destroy investor confidence? - Roughly half of Albertans indicate in polls that they would leave a separate Alberta. What impact would this have on the tax base, labour market, housing market, etc., and what's your contingency plan for massive emigration? - Would the Republic of Alberta use the Canadian currency, with zero input in Canadian monetary policy? - What happens when Alberta suddenly loses largely tariff free access to 55 countries around the world, including the United States? - How do Albertans travel internationally when a separate Alberta has no standing in the International Air Transport Association's Multilateral Interline Traffic Agreements? - The ultimate bosses of separatism (Sylvester and Rath) say that the roughly half of Albertans born outside the province will not be eligible for Alberta citizenship. Will they be subject to deportation? Or will they graciously be allowed to stay indefinitely as guest workers? There are hundreds of questions like these that the separatists have made no serious effort to answer. But by all means, keep on making wacky videos. Doing so shows everyone how profoundly unserious the Alberta separatist movement is.

Fellow Canadian conservatives: please reflect on this poll. Yes, the US and is and always will be our largest trading partner. And yes, we have to find a modus vivendi with whoever is in the White House, even a President who flippantly insults and threatens us. But it is self-defeating to attack the Prime Minister for trying to diversify away from our imprudent dependence on an unreliable US market. Have the humility to listen to Canadians. Stop dismissing Trump’s attacks as a distraction, or worse yet, as somehow justified. And heed the wise words of @stephenharper: "Canada must adapt to new geopolitical realities. To be clear, these realities mean we must reduce our dependence on the U.S." cbc.ca/news/politics/stephen…