Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has campaigned for national unity as advance voting is underway in oil-rich Alberta in a referendum that could set the province on a path toward a future vote on separation from Canada.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney warned Thursday that the United States is trying to break Canada so it can “own us” as he urged oil-rich Alberta not to begin a process toward separation in Monday’s referendum.

The vote is not a direct referendum on independence. Alberta, which has the world’s fourth-largest proven oil reserves, will decide whether to remain a province or instruct the government to begin the legal process toward a future referendum on separation.

“This referendum comes at the worst possible time,” Carney told a large pro-Canada rally in Calgary. “The world has become more dangerous and divided. Some outside our borders are working to break us so they can own us.”

  • tirateimas@lemmy.ptEnglish
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    3 days ago

    He is right, and they are also actively working on destabilizing many other parts of the world.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Thats disgusting. We are truely on the worst timeline. There needs to be viscous corruption investigations for all tbe cunts peddling this ideology. I hope they happen in nz as well.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I think that’s exactly their thinking. They’re supporting separatists in Alberta and Quebec, and inundating people with their propaganda trying to set Canadians against one another and exaggerating how many Canadians don’t want to be part of Canada. Unfortunately, this stuff is quite effective. Unless Canadians stick together the USA may do serious damage to our country. Annexation doesn’t have to take place via an immediate military action. It can be a slow war of social and economic attrition.

      • fonix232@fedia.io
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        3 days ago

        Really wish the rest of the political spectrum lost its already nonexistent spine and did the same thing back to the US.

        Honestly, the best thing that can happen to the world is the three superpowers - US, Russia, China - breaking up into smaller, independent states that do not hold nearly as much influence as the previous big states did. At most, an EU-style independent countries’ (primarily economic) alliance

        • Stormy@thelemmy.clubEnglish
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          3 days ago

          Russia is not a superpower. Gulf states could be but Russia being a superpower is laughable