{"id":49170,"date":"2019-10-26T15:49:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T20:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49170"},"modified":"2019-10-26T15:49:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T20:49:28","slug":"wexit-will-alberta-ditch-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49170","title":{"rendered":"Wexit: Will Alberta Ditch Canada?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertynation.com\/wexit-will-alberta-ditch-canada\/\">Wexit: Will Alberta Ditch Canada?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The re-election of Justin Trudeau has revved up Wexit talk in Canada.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertynation.com\/how-would-margaret-thatcher-solve-brexit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Brexit<\/a>,&nbsp;Italexit,&nbsp;Frexit,&nbsp;Nexit,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertynation.com\/calexit-leader-ditch-the-middle-class\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CalExit<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertynation.com\/texas-independence-in-the-age-of-trump-part-iii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Texit<\/a>, and now&nbsp;Wexit? What likely started as a social media campaign to air a considerable portion of the electorate\u2019s grievances against the federal government, a serious political movement in Canada may be born. Would this have serious ramifications for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his newly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertynation.com\/trudeau-cons-canada-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">re-elected Liberals<\/a>? Or, is it an annoying mosquito bite from Muskoka that needs scratching? While Ottawa may no longer need to lose sleep over a separatist initiative in Quebec, the nation\u2019s capital might need to keep a close eye on the west as separatism is brewing like a Double-Double at the nearby Tim Hortons. The experts say that a split is unlikely to happen, but they said the same thing about the British and Brussels. It could be time to wake up and smell the poutine \u2013 or crude oil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Western Alienation: A Primer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The term \u201cwestern alienation\u201d has entered the national lexicon, becoming just as Canadian as \u201cgrab your toque\u201d or \u201ca kerfuffle at the hockey rink.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.libertynation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Justin-Trudeau-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-539120\"\/><figcaption>Justin Trudeau<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite being rich in resources and contributing a great deal to the gross domestic product, this part of the country feels disrespected, shunned, unequal, and underrepresented. From the perspective of westerners, the frustration is warranted; Ottawa seemingly concentrates primarily on the economic juggernaut of Ontario and the sensitive vote-rich province of Quebec. From the vantage point of other provinces and territories, the sentiment is: What about me? There is a reason people joke that Toronto thinks it is the only city in Canada, as well as the center of the universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wexit: Will Alberta Ditch Canada? The re-election of Justin Trudeau has revved up Wexit talk in Canada.\u00a0 Brexit,&nbsp;Italexit,&nbsp;Frexit,&nbsp;Nexit,&nbsp;CalExit,&nbsp;Texit, and now&nbsp;Wexit? What likely started as a social media campaign to air a considerable portion of the electorate\u2019s grievances against the federal government, a serious political movement in Canada may be born. Would this have serious ramifications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[1082,22913,4709,27431],"class_list":["post-49170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-alberta","tag-liberty-nation","tag-western-canada","tag-wexit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49171,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49170\/revisions\/49171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}