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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has labeled oil-rich Alberta’s separatist movement a “dangerous bluff” that echoes the U.K.’s Brexit vote of 2016.
Speaking to reporters in Ottawa on Monday, Carney shared “an observation from experience.”
“In these separation issues, it is often advanced that, ‘vote for this and it’s a free option. Vote for this and we will strengthen our hand in future negotiations.’ That is a very dangerous bluff,” he said.
“I saw first-hand what happened in the United Kingdom when the view was, ‘vote for this it’ll be soft and then we’ll negotiate.’ And they’re still, 10 years later, trying to undo what people didn’t think they were voting for but what they ended up having.”
