But then The Big Stupid happened

Be nice if our countries took it as the declaration of war that it is and bombed the fuck out of them ourselves.

I'd say the same for the US but they're way too close and way too violent for that.

I think a lot of them are hosted at local data centers in the US and abroad, not Russia.

Why even hold it in the first place? Especially with the current context of U.S. interference in our politics and media manipulation?

It's just like Brexit.

This is the second time I've replied to you about this, the Canadian extraction and midstream fields are not overwhelmingly foreign owned. The midstream field for instance is mostly TC Energy, Pembina, Enbridge, Trans Mountain and Interpipeline, all Canadian Owned.

Upstream includes Ovintiv, Suncor, CNRL, Tourmaline, ARC, etc. Yes some of these have moved to the US but most are not.

Are these companies still oligarchs with are too much power? Yes. Are they foreign owned? No.

The new pipeline is an even more interesting one since it will be under Trans Mountain (federally owned crown corp). You couldn't ask for a better situation since the federal government can dangle that single asset over all of Alberta as both a carrot and a stick. Its literally a nationalized oil asset with profit going back into federal coffers for use elsewhere.

Edit addition for clarity: I agree with ALL your other statements.

Who is Marlaina?

Québec PM said he will do a referendum after the orange turd is out/dead

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.

You mean "everything is broken" -this was the PC party mantra for 2020-2024. No one even seems concerned Andrew Scheer is American.

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

It's not effective, it's been repeatedly shown to be ineffective when they've do polling outside of the provincial gov for it. It's why the alberten gov has not been showing any of the preliminary results for these votes, the only reason this is being pushed rn is cuz trump is desperate and is looking for any angle he can reach for to interrupt his fall from majority power and a win for his regime.