Canada fielding economic assaults and threats of a takeover from the Trump Administration is now facing the possibility that a separatist movement may further complicate Mark Carney’s year. The Alberta’s premier Danielle Smith said she would hold a public vote on 19th October to decide whether to pursue a referendum for the province to separate from Canada. It would not directly trigger separation but would be the first step if successful towards holding a binding referendum.
Alberta is an oil-rich province, is the largest foreign supplier of oil to the US and home to the world’s third-largest reserve of crude. There are historic differences within Canada between Alberta and the central government, with Danielle Smith regularly blaming Ottawa for political and economic interference.
Canada, 1 July 1867 12 am Ottawa, does look edgy August to this October with tr Uranus square the Mars but relieved the following year with tr Uranus square the Jupiter. There is little to indicate a break up in immediate years. Tr Neptune will square the Sun Uranus in Cancer by 2029 but that is more of a drift and is repeated elsewhere in the UK and EU. When there might be a chance of major changes would be 2033/34 as tr Saturn Uranus in Cancer are conjunct the Canada Sun Uranus. But that has happened before without a fracture.
Relations between Alberta and Canada will be unsettled this year and undermined and facing major challenges towards the end of this decade, more so into the early 2030s. So the dissatisfaction will roll on.
Danielle Smith, 1 April 19071 Calgary, is an excitable, super-ambitious, hot-headed and rebellious Aries Sun opposition Uranus square Mars in Capricorn. That has moved by Solar Arc to hard aspect her overly optimistic Neptune Jupiter in Sagittarius over the next eighteen months. She could score some points but Jupiter Neptune tends to short circuit along the way. In October tr Saturn in Aries is hovering around her Sun opposition Uranus and square her Mars – so not ideal for a success.
Alberta, 1 September 1905, with be in the mood to take a risk with tr Uranus conjunct the Jupiter over the October date and then opposition Mars and Square the Virgo Sun in the two or three years after. There is likely to be unrest. But as above, Canada may not fragment immediately and even in the 2030s there may be other effects of the Saturn Uranus in Cancer conjunction.
The previous tr Uranus in Cancer conjunct the Canada Sun Uranus around 1950 saw rapid economic expansion and the integration of Newfoundland into the Canadian confederation.