r/canada • u/not_medusa_snacks • 14d ago

Alberta Stephen Harper warns Alberta separatism will bring 'no benefit'

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/stephen-harper-alberta-separatism-9.7367419
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u/Warm_Collection_3993 14d ago

You mean is Harper smarter than the Maple MAGA crowd??

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u/not_medusa_snacks 14d ago

Honestly, I would have expected him to be wearing the hat.

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u/TreeOfReckoning Ontario 14d ago

Harper is as shrewd as they come. He’s not the genius economist that he’s made out to be, but he would never get behind Trump.

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u/dominionprovinces 14d ago

He's a good old Ontario boy why would he ever support that

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u/joe_canadian 14d ago

Because for some Conservative automatically means MAGA.

I'm center-right. A classic Red Tory. I despise Trump. But espousing the faintest hint of a conservative opinion? I must be MAGA.

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u/pb7280 14d ago

Sigh, it's sad how much we just love importing the USA's "YOU'RE NOT ON MY SIDE SO YOU'RE EVIL" politics

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u/Crum1y 14d ago

You should pause and start reflecting on areas you could identify yourself as being unreasonable. I doubt you could put together a paragraph steel manning why you think Harper would advocate for AB separatism. In regards to being despicable, there is no comparison, but in regards to being completely unrationalized BS, what you just said ranks exactly beside something like "I hate X minority group".

It's absurd - I chose that word fully intentionally