More Ontario running Ottawa good for Alberta!

[bluealberta]

Re: RE: More Ontario running Ottawa good for Alberta!

the fed will just declare that each part of the province has to vote for independence and that the oil and gas beneath the ground isn't yours if you separate!

(note how the land laws can be used against a government as well as for a government)

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Well, I admire your optimism if not your common sense.

The resources in a province belong to a province, every province. That is a constitutional issue, and to change it would be somewhat contentious. It's like mineral rights. Just because you sell land on which you hold mineral rights, does not mean you lose the mineral rights to that land. The resources of Alberta belong to Alberta and Albertans, just as the resources of Ontario belong to Ontario and Ontarians. Plain and simple, guaranteed by the constitution.

 

[bluealberta]

Re: RE: More Ontario running

So Stephen Harper is going to push Quebec out of Canada as a way of further Albertan separatism? No real surprises there.

How anyone can make that connection is beyond comprehension. What utter trash.

 

[Jersay]

The resources in a province belong to a province, every province. That is a constitutional issue, and to change it would be somewhat contentious. It's like mineral rights. Just because you sell land on which you hold mineral rights, does not mean you lose the mineral rights to that land. The resources of Alberta belong to Alberta and Albertans, just as the resources of Ontario belong to Ontario and Ontarians. Plain and simple, guaranteed by the constitution.

Just like Saskatchewan and Manitoba, the resources of Alberta was given to the provincial governments by the federal government, and I am sure that if you look at the documentation of those agreements, even though they are probably vague, they will have something about seperatism and the resources revert back to Canada.

 

[the caracal kid]

your forgetting though that if you separate the constitution no longer applies to you! remember all the issues surrounding Quebec separation? Go look at a map of the area that became Alberta. Could you imagine if the gov decided to revert the borders back to the old territorial days? It would be a messy issue to say the least. The current Alberta does not have a historical claim to its boundaries so separation talk could get very interesting.

i was being light-hearted about the "the oil isn't yours", but to be serious, if you consider how much the feds have put into alberta you can pretty much count on getting a rather large bill as a part of separation.