cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53199073

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney warned Thursday that the United States is trying to break Canada so it can “own us” as he urged oil-rich Alberta not to begin a process toward separation in Monday’s referendum.

The vote is not a direct referendum on independence. Alberta, which has the world’s fourth-largest proven oil reserves, will decide whether to remain a province or instruct the government to begin the legal process toward a future referendum on separation.

“This referendum comes at the worst possible time,” Carney told a large pro-Canada rally in Calgary. “The world has become more dangerous and divided. Some outside our borders are working to break us so they can own us.”

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    10 hours ago

    Plus Russian bots interfering as well. It could be nice if Ukraine would wipe out the rest of the data centres in Russia to help eliminate that noise.

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      4 hours ago

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

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      7 hours ago

      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.