"Could Albertans already be seeing the nascent economic impact of... fading home equity? Could this snowball into a made-in-AB, thank-you-Danielle recession if business investment dollars divert to other provinces? What happens if O&G head offices relocate, the way financial corps abandoned Montreal when the dreamers were pushing separation there?"New estimates are that leaving #Canada would cost Albertans about $400 billion for disentanglement. Residents there would have to grapple with the loss of #Canadian #citizenship and the massive overhead of setting up their own social #safety net, #retirement income support and security. Atop this would be the rational decision of major corporations to stay far away until it was known if this breakaway, land-locked, under-populated rebel territory was economically viable or even stable."Might this bring years of falling real estate prices?"How could it be otherwise?"#abpoli #canpolihttps://www.greaterfool.ca/2026/06/04/a-cool-wind-in-cowtown/