Soft Secession, Insurrection, or the Real Return of Federalism in Texas?
Soft Secession, Insurrection, or the Real Return of Federalism in Texas? Tom Luongo In this year’s public blog two-part extravaganza I went over my predictions for 2024 ( here and here ). In them I brought up the idea that ‘soft secession’ would make it’s way into the public conversation in both the US and Canada. It wasn’t really a tough call to make but it was something that needed to be discussed in the public sphere. We saw the beginnings of this last year with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith declaring she would not be collecting carbon taxes to send to Ottawa to fund Chrystia Freeland’s dreams of destroying the country. Smith is in the news again with her pledge to further defy Ottawa by announcing Alberta would be looking to double oil and gas production . She did so at an event with Tucker Carlson in Edmonton. I’m not sure how Smith is going to go about this, since I do not explicitly understand the legal limits she can defy Ottawa on this. But this is a big deal. Smith isn’