>Ex-Albertan here: this is false, there has never been a plan to "cede to the US". In 1990 the premier of Nova Scotia said that Atlantic Canada would have "no

>Ex-Albertan here: this is false, there has never been a plan to "cede to the US". In 1990 the premier of Nova Scotia said that Atlantic Canada would have "no choice" but to join the US (<http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1990-05-03/news/9002050757_1_newfoundland-premier-clyde-wells-meech-lake-quebec http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1990-05-03/news/900205075...>) if Quebec were to leave. Saskatchewan in both 1980 and 1995 evaluated the possibility of also seceding, and/or seeking US statehood (<http://web.archive.org/web/20140829140952/http://www.thestarphoenix.com/news/Secret+Romanow+group+mulled+secession/10148654/story.html http://web.archive.org/web/20140829140952/http://www.thestar...>), on the event of a "Yes" vote in the Quebec referendum those years, in part because "Atlantic Canada would be 'an island'". It would only have been prudent for some or all of the other provincial governments to have made similar plans in secret. >It would be extremely politically distasteful in Alberta to cede to the USA, such a plan would be political suicide. Are you so sure about that, after the last few years of Alberta/Trudeau 2.0 conflicts fueling the longstanding sense of Western alienation? Remember, Re Secession lays out a legal path for secession.