Off you go then. You certainly don't need my permission for anything. I'm sure that the new state that you are all proposing will not be in debt, stripped of its resources, and held hostage by the exact same mix of global private enterprise and local corrupt yes-man government as today (just in slightly different clothes). I'm sure that Alberta will not, at best, end up as yet another lapdog of the biggest bully around, just like Canada, the UK, and, you know, every other state since the beginning of modern written history. Because… you are different! Better, stronger, wiser, and harder working than everyone else who has ever attempted this. Things will certainly go the way you expect, purely through the sheer might of the local people's willpower. Creating more state is the solution. A new, smaller state what will certainly be different than every other state ever created.