I would like to clarify that it is the first question that requires a “YES” vote - NOT no. Because it’s asking if voters support Canada STAYING IN CANADA.
It’s the second question that requires the “no” vote. Because it’s asking if voters support the govt moving forward to begin the process of Alberta seceding from Canada.
I would ask that you revisit this issue. Thank you.
You were right, and the publication has corrected the dispatch openly. The polarity error you flagged is now named in a correction header at the top of The Clock With No Hands, dated May 23, where every reader who comes to the dispatch from this point forward will see it. The correction is in the open because that is the standard the publication is choosing to carry from here forward — corrections appear at the top of the affected dispatch, on the date they are made, in the publication's own voice.
But the catch did something larger than the correction. The publication, sitting with your comment over a long morning and a careful coffee, was inspired to commission a companion dispatch — The Spirit and the Letter — that reads all ten questions on the October 19 ballot against the spirit of the Clarity Act. That dispatch is now published. It carries a documentary spine the publication did not have when The Clock With No Hands went to print, including a 2024 letter from Premier Smith to Prime Minister Trudeau in which the Premier formally requested thirty thousand additional immigration allocations on the grounds that, in her own signed words, immigration is critical to addressing these labour challenges. The same Premier now asks Albertans, on Question 1 of the October 19 ballot, whether immigration should be decreased.
Your catch did not just correct an error. It surfaced the question that produced Spirit and the Letter. The publication thanks you, the publication credits you, and the publication wants you to know that this is what the comments section is for at The Vertical. The work gets sharper because readers like you are reading carefully. Welcome back any time.
OH WOW!!! 😮 Thank you so very much - for this really explanatory response. I am honoured by both the response, and the time you spent with it that then resulted in other crucial pieces being elucidated. I’m hoping I’m using a correct term on that one. 😬Thinking my thanks is owed to you on that piece! Cheers!
I’m a little slow on some of the technical aspects of all this. Would you be so good as to fill in some gaps for me, so that I understand how going live works, and so that I can tune in. Many thanks.
In a low-price OPEC-driven world, an independent Alberta would look less like Norway and more like a highly exposed petro-state without a coastline, currency, central bank, or settled trade framework. The potential is there. The timing here is seriously bad.
Now read that last sentence again. I have 3 times, and I know it is bad. One of my teachers is reporting more on the USA and world events than he has ever reported in the 10-plus years of his mission, Namaste
Excellent summary of thru lines. As someone who voted in the 1995 Quebec referendum, may I point out that the “rest of Canada “ severely underestimated the leave side. Let’s not make that mistake again.
I am so tired of our leaders & most ordinary “Canadian” citizens not giving these disgruntled assholes in Alberta some tough love.
There might be some legal &, perhaps, other justifications for provinces that “joined” Canada - Nfld & BC being the latest & Upper & Lower Canada, NS & PEI being the founders, to try to leave. However, all the rest was made part of Canada by Britain- you know, Rupert’s Land, etc. And, most of that came with a mess of treaty obligations & a lot more vis a vis our First Nations citizens.
So (1), just because the federal government decided to create a province to deal with “local” issues, due to population growth, doesn’t grant those “Johnny-come-lately” whiners even a fig leaf’s cover/justification to remove the piece of Canadian real estate currently called “Karena” (or maybe “Jessica”, according to those younger than me.)
Oh yeah, as an aside, 60% of Alberta is “crown land” & 100% is subject to some degree of treaty agreements. How about that Daniele?
So (2), all you “separatists” who are so tired of how horribly treated you are in Canada, why not load up the SUV, sell your “acreage” & get your ungrateful & privileged butts to some other jurisdiction that will sympathize with how hard done by you’ve been.
(Here’s a thought, Odessa Texas is pretty sweet in the Sumner. Don’t take the Ski-doo, though. Just sayln’.)
There is no time like the present, remembering that foreign interests have the entire list of electors for Alberta and will use it to their advantage. Convoy summer incoming.
Dear Universe, I'm ready. Pass the popcorn 🍿. Proud to be an Alberta-born Canadian, and glad to have read this piece because of the hope it gives me!
I would like to clarify that it is the first question that requires a “YES” vote - NOT no. Because it’s asking if voters support Canada STAYING IN CANADA.
It’s the second question that requires the “no” vote. Because it’s asking if voters support the govt moving forward to begin the process of Alberta seceding from Canada.
I would ask that you revisit this issue. Thank you.
You were right, and the publication has corrected the dispatch openly. The polarity error you flagged is now named in a correction header at the top of The Clock With No Hands, dated May 23, where every reader who comes to the dispatch from this point forward will see it. The correction is in the open because that is the standard the publication is choosing to carry from here forward — corrections appear at the top of the affected dispatch, on the date they are made, in the publication's own voice.
But the catch did something larger than the correction. The publication, sitting with your comment over a long morning and a careful coffee, was inspired to commission a companion dispatch — The Spirit and the Letter — that reads all ten questions on the October 19 ballot against the spirit of the Clarity Act. That dispatch is now published. It carries a documentary spine the publication did not have when The Clock With No Hands went to print, including a 2024 letter from Premier Smith to Prime Minister Trudeau in which the Premier formally requested thirty thousand additional immigration allocations on the grounds that, in her own signed words, immigration is critical to addressing these labour challenges. The same Premier now asks Albertans, on Question 1 of the October 19 ballot, whether immigration should be decreased.
Your catch did not just correct an error. It surfaced the question that produced Spirit and the Letter. The publication thanks you, the publication credits you, and the publication wants you to know that this is what the comments section is for at The Vertical. The work gets sharper because readers like you are reading carefully. Welcome back any time.
OH WOW!!! 😮 Thank you so very much - for this really explanatory response. I am honoured by both the response, and the time you spent with it that then resulted in other crucial pieces being elucidated. I’m hoping I’m using a correct term on that one. 😬Thinking my thanks is owed to you on that piece! Cheers!
The book is going live by tomorrow night
I’m a little slow on some of the technical aspects of all this. Would you be so good as to fill in some gaps for me, so that I understand how going live works, and so that I can tune in. Many thanks.
In a low-price OPEC-driven world, an independent Alberta would look less like Norway and more like a highly exposed petro-state without a coastline, currency, central bank, or settled trade framework. The potential is there. The timing here is seriously bad.
Now read that last sentence again. I have 3 times, and I know it is bad. One of my teachers is reporting more on the USA and world events than he has ever reported in the 10-plus years of his mission, Namaste
Excellent summary of thru lines. As someone who voted in the 1995 Quebec referendum, may I point out that the “rest of Canada “ severely underestimated the leave side. Let’s not make that mistake again.
I am so tired of our leaders & most ordinary “Canadian” citizens not giving these disgruntled assholes in Alberta some tough love.
There might be some legal &, perhaps, other justifications for provinces that “joined” Canada - Nfld & BC being the latest & Upper & Lower Canada, NS & PEI being the founders, to try to leave. However, all the rest was made part of Canada by Britain- you know, Rupert’s Land, etc. And, most of that came with a mess of treaty obligations & a lot more vis a vis our First Nations citizens.
So (1), just because the federal government decided to create a province to deal with “local” issues, due to population growth, doesn’t grant those “Johnny-come-lately” whiners even a fig leaf’s cover/justification to remove the piece of Canadian real estate currently called “Karena” (or maybe “Jessica”, according to those younger than me.)
Oh yeah, as an aside, 60% of Alberta is “crown land” & 100% is subject to some degree of treaty agreements. How about that Daniele?
So (2), all you “separatists” who are so tired of how horribly treated you are in Canada, why not load up the SUV, sell your “acreage” & get your ungrateful & privileged butts to some other jurisdiction that will sympathize with how hard done by you’ve been.
(Here’s a thought, Odessa Texas is pretty sweet in the Sumner. Don’t take the Ski-doo, though. Just sayln’.)
Have a good day!
The Vertical was inspired. We made you a meme. Please check our Notes for it. I think it’s funny as heck
This is a two part question. A Yes is meaningless and a No is equally meaningless.
There is no time like the present, remembering that foreign interests have the entire list of electors for Alberta and will use it to their advantage. Convoy summer incoming.