# ‘The Switzerland of North America’: Albertans vote on leaving Canada

https://mins.news/en/item/105110

- Financial Times, 2026-10-18 12:00 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.ft.com/content/d48c545b-6b41-41e9-a71c-cb2126c76082?syn-25a6b1a6=1

> A Monday independence referendum in Canada’s western province of Alberta threatens Mark Carney’s effort to unite the country against a hostile US.

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