Alberta referendum by 2026?

Canada's western province of Alberta, think of it as the Texas of Canada, could vote to depart Canada as early as next year. While the provincial premier Danielle Smith explicitly stated that her government does not endorse it... and then followed up with rule changes for voting and referendum rules; hinting that, if the citizens of the province want to leave, they have a means to do so.  Hint, hint.

What a lot of Americans get wrong about Canada, is that it is a liberal leftist haven. It isn't. The Liberal party got 43.7% of the total vote, the Conservative party got 41.3%.  That's almost parity.  This despite the fact that Canada has ZERO equivalent of Fox News. Canadian media is a Leftist Wasteland. On top of which, what the Liberals do far better than conservatives is allocate their political spend hyper-strategically and to great effect; winning swing ridings (districts) very efficiently.  There is a strong conservative inclination in much of Canada, and not just the West. 

I live in Ontario, a traditionally Liberal-leaning province. Except that's due almost entirely to the major urban centers. If you get outside of cities like Toronto or Ottawa (like I am), the provincial voters are much more like Alberta voters; conservative, most often Christian, and if you didn't notice an accent, you could easily mistake them for an American conservative voter.

Nevertheless we lost, and are going to suffer even more now, under further far left dogma leadership but this time with a mask of centrism. And believe me, Canada's middle class and working class are being gutted by these policies.

I've seen a lot of comments on YouTube videos from Americans about Canada that are unduly harsh. When you guys were suffering under Let's Go Brandon's atrocious 'presidency', we empathized; we cheered for a return of Trump. Obviously not all Canadians but definitely the majority of conservatives.  Some of the comments I have seen have been not only ignorant of the details, but downright belligerent. I get America has been ripped by most every country on earth. I get the America First mentality. I support it in fact. But Canada, DESPITE the leftist leadership of the last decade, has been a stalwart ally of America. Such comments are both undeserved and beneath Americans. 

I know it's anecdotal and not necessarily indicative of anything more widespread, but on YouTube at least, it's pretty pervasive. As a Canadian conservative in a province that is left leaning due only to a few densely populated areas, I have to say that sort of response is quite disheartening to see.