You Can’t Rip a Province Off the Map Like a Bumper Sticker

Before Alberta was a province, this land already had rules.

Not vibes.

Not slogans.

Ink.

Smoke.

Handshakes.

Promises made in cold rooms and open fields while the grass bent in the wind and the Crown swore it would last “as long as the sun shines.”

That’s Treaty 6, 7, and 8.

Alberta shows up in 1905. Late to the party. Built on top of agreements it didn’t write and never owned.

This is important. You don’t get to inherit land and then pretend the contracts under it are optional.

Fast forward to now. Folks waving separation flags like it’s a tailgate party. Talking about referendums like they’re magic words. Like you say “sovereignty” three times into a mirror and a country appears.

That’s not how this works.

The Supreme Court already said it. You don’t get to leave Canada just because you’re mad. A vote doesn’t create a country. It just opens a door to negotiations. And those negotiations have rules.

One of those rules is treaties.

Treaty Nations are not a box to check or a group to consult after the fact. They are the reason the province exists at all. Alberta didn’t grant them rights. They allowed settlement under conditions. Conditions that still stand.

You can’t haul treaty land into a new country without consent. You can’t redraw borders over promises older than your legislature. You can’t shout “freedom” while standing on agreements you refuse to honour.

So when Treaty Nations say no. And let's be clear that they do.

Chiefs from Treaty 6, Treaty 7, and Treaty 8 territories.

Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation

Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation

Siksika Nation

Piikani Nation

Kainai (Blood Tribe)

Mikisew Cree First Nation

All. Say. No.

This separation fantasy doesn’t collapse because people disagree. It collapses because the ground underneath it was never Alberta’s to pull away.

And to the few separatists, yes, few. You don’t get to pretend otherwise. You are Canadian first, whether you like it or not.

Canada has roughly 41 million people. Around 40 million of them would choose to keep this country whole. That’s not oppression. That’s reality. You are not a silenced majority. You are a loud minority mistaking attention for power.

So here’s the ask. Stop shadowboxing ghosts.

Stop importing American grievance politics and pretending it belongs here.

Stop letting yourself be used as a pawn in someone else’s culture war.

We have real work to do in this country.

Do it.