Oil Rich Alberta Pushes Closer to Independence Referendum as Carney Says Province ‘Essential to Canada

Prime Minister Mark Carney asserted that Alberta was “essential” to Canada’s future, hours after the province’s leader moved the oil-rich region closer to a referendum on independence. Separatists in Alberta spent months collecting signatures to trigger a binding October vote to secede from the nation. On May 4, they delivered their petition to provincial officials, […] The post Oil Rich Alberta Pushes Closer to Independence Referendum as Carney Says Province ‘Essential to Canada appeared first on EURASIAN TIMES.