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West Canada is a releasable formable of 
Alberta and 
Saskatchewan located in North America 
. It was added on the 03/29/2023.
Background[]
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Western Canada, also referred to as the Western provinces, Canadian West or the Western provinces of Canada, and commonly known within Canada as the West, is a Canadian region that includes the four western provinces just north of the Canada–United States border namely (from west to east) British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The people of the region are often referred to as "Western Canadians" or "Westerners", and though diverse from province to province are largely seen as being collectively distinct from other Canadians along cultural, linguistic, socioeconomic, geographic, and political lines. They account for approximately 32% of Canada's total population.
The region is further subdivided geographically and culturally between British Columbia, which is mostly on the western side of the Canadian Rockies and often referred to as the "west coast", and the "Prairie Provinces" (commonly known as "the Prairies"), which include those provinces on the eastern side of the Rockies yet west of Ontario - Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Alberta and British Columbia are also sometimes subcategorized together, either as the "Rockie Provinces" or "mountain provinces" owing to both hosting large swathes of the mountain range, or due to shared socio-economic, cultural, and demographic factors such as their highly urbanized populations (three of Canada's five largest cities are Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver) and significant interprovincial mobility between the two. Alberta and Saskatchewan, having once been united as a single territory, are also sometimes subcategorized together due to shared political and economic histories, as well as similar historic migratory patterns from Eastern Europe.
Particularly since the 1970s, when the resource-based economies of Alberta and Saskatchewan began to see rapid growth, the idea of separatism and independence for western provinces—on their own or in some combination together—has at times gained political traction and led to the creation of new movements and parties working towards that end. Such sentiment did not arise in a vacuum, with agitation for Quebec sovereignty reaching new heights in the 1970s. The extent to which agitation for western sovereignty has merely been a "bargaining tool" for the west, as former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau characterized it in 1980, has been debated, and western Premiers, including Peter Lougheed, have tended to downplay any push for secession. Parties advocating for western secession have tended to fare poorly at the polls.
While movements like the Reform Party stated that they were dedicated to realizing a bigger role for the west within Canada, other movements, like the Western Canada Concept, founded in 1980, argued that the west would be better off carving out its own nation, and was politically and economically capable of doing so. Although envisioned as a federal movement, Western Canada Concept never ran candidates in a federal election. However, it did field provincial branches in each of the western provinces. It found its biggest success in Alberta, where Gordon Kesler won a 1982 by-election under the WCC banner; in that year's general election, the party was one candidate short of a full slate and earned 12% of the vote, although none of its candidates were elected. During Saskatchewan's 20th Legislature, two sitting MLAs—Bill Sveinson and Lloyd Hampton—took up the WCC banner. However, the party failed to have any candidates elected in the 1986 election
The short-lived Unionest Party in Saskatchewan offered another separatist option in that province. Former Progressive Conservative leader Dick Collver founded the party in 1980, and advocated for a secession of western provinces and a subsequent union with the United States—Unionest was a contraction of "best" and "union". This was seen as "traitorous" by some, and somewhat ironic given that one factor in Canada's acquisition of the west was to avoid its annexation by the US.
Other such movements that arose to advocate for secession include the Western Independence Party, which fielded candidates in federal and provincial elections from 1988 into the twenty-first century, and the Western Block Party.
Separatist sentiment began to re-emerge strongly ahead of the 2019 federal election, with one study indicating record levels of separatist sentiment in Alberta and Saskatchewan. In the wake of the 2019 election—which saw the governing Liberal Party shut out from both Alberta and Saskatchewan—the "Wexit" movement consolidated this new wave of separatist sentiment. A play on the British "Brexit" movement, Wexit established federal and provincial branches to advocate for western secession, and adopted a reversed version of Preston Manning's slogan: "The West Wants Out". In 2020, Wexit Canada rebranded as the Maverick Party; Wexit Alberta merged with the Freedom Conservative Party to form the Wildrose Independence Party; and Wexit Saskatchewan rebranded as the Buffalo Party. Wexit BC was de-registered in 2022.
In the 2020 Saskatchewan provincial election, the Buffalo Party ran just 17 candidates but received 2.9% of the popular vote, more than any other third party, and finished second in a handful of rural ridings. The result prompted Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe to state that his Saskatchewan Party—which handily won a majority government—"share[s] your frustrations", and to call for more "independence" from Ottawa, although he downplayed talk of secession.
Ahead of the 2021 federal election, the Maverick Party stated that it was trying to emulate the model laid out by the Bloc Québécois. However, the party failed to gain traction in the election, earning just over 1% of the vote in each of Alberta and Saskatchewan. Then-interim leader Jay Hill acknowledged after the election that focusing on separatism created "a certain degree of discomfort with most westerners who aren’t prepared at this point to go that far." Although Maverick did not officially endorse the 2022 convoy protest that occupied Ottawa, many of its members supported it and one of the party's secretaries, Tamara Lich, was a key convoy organizer.
Base Statistics[]
Geography[]
In the Cascadian part of West Canada in the Far West and in the border with Alaska the terrain is mostly Hilly/Semi-Mountainous,and,to the North and the Border with Alaska it's mostly Artic.
Cities[]
West Canada has 56 cities in total,53 of them being Circle Cities,and 3 of them being Square Cities. And also 15 of them from Alberta,10 of them from Saskatchewan,12 from Canada,and 19 from Cascadia.
Strategy[]
Threats[]
United States, Canada or Mexico need all of Western Canada for the North American Union. (Common/Rare/Rare)- Canada wanting to reintegrate you. (Common)
- United Kingdom needs all of Western Canada for the British Empire. (Rare)
- Cascadia, if it declares independence from the United States, needs all of Cascadia, including its cities in Canada, to form the Pacific States of America.
Trivia[]
- If West Canada got its Independence, at least in real life, Canada would lose over half of its land.
- In addition to the loss of land, Canada would also lose about 95% of its oil production, as most oil is produced in West Canada, namely in Alberta, which is responsible for about 80% of Canada's oil.
- The Record Temperature for West Canada was 49.6 degree Celsius or 121 Fahrenheit,recorded in the Province of British Columbia.
- West Canada has 4 Provinces in real life: Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia and also sometimes includes the Canadian territories of Yukon, Nunavut and the Northwest territories.
