Albertan Secessionist Movement (A Mighty Endeavour)

The Albertan Secessionist Movement was a political and socio-economic movement in North America regarding the possible secession of the former Canadian province of Alberta to the United States during the early 21st century. It soon grew to encompass Saskatchewan and British Colombia as a popular revolt by a generation of Canadians born between 2012 to 2038 and became a defining moment in the future of the Canadian nation.

During the early 2020s, Alberta and Saskatchewan became the two largest and financially strongest provinces of Canada due to a large mass of retirees. This was bolstered by international immigration to Canada, most notably from China and Japan, both of whose citizens form a minority in both regions today. Despite the Asian Crash of 2026, Canada was largely shielded from its effects and even saw relative economic growth.

In the years during and after the Third World War, however, Canada faced increasing pressures internally, including a large, aging population that only Alberta was able to supplement and finance. Thus, the Canadian government introduced in 2037 a series of tax measures designed to better benefit the aging population but disproportionately raised taxes on younger parts of the population known as the Age Laws, severely damaging the ruling Conservative Party's reputation. It was at this time when geopolitician and former US Secretary of State Peter Zeihan encouraged Alberta to secede as part of a long-standing opinion that it would benefit from statehood in the United States, now known as the Zeihan Predictions. Zeihan's opinion continued to gain popularity, especially with the Depression of 2041, which was often blamed on the Canadian government. Secession began to become openly debated.