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