Could you explain how it is a threat or massively more popular than it used to be when it is still this much of a minority of people who subscribe to it (apparently, less than 25%)? Could you then explain how you know it is a "psyop" since, as you said, this isn't even remotely new and more of a result of the latent settler-colonial perceptions of land use that Albertan settlers subscribe to? Even more, why would it even be necessary to conduct such a psyop when there is already such a favourable attitude of those settlers toward fossil fuel when the Canadian state allows this kind of material dependency on it?

Even even more, when exactly did it become a "psyop?" How do you draw a line between this "psyop" and three quarters of a century of western alienation and reliance on the fossil fuel industry?Was this a psyop when the seperatist movement gained ground in 2015 when Trudeau was first elected? What about following the 1980s oil glut and the dismissal of Albertan speratism by Pierre Trudeau? Social media algos promote this industry and the fascism it requires to exist because they are designed around capitalist imperatives by companies that are, guess what, capitalist. So, what then distinguishes this as a "psyop" from every other fucking thing Canadians do in support of capitalism?

Be honest, did you ask a single one of these questions to yourself before typing this comment?

I think a lot of Canadian liberals are having to contrive these kinds of narratives because they are deeply uncomfortable with the reality of how cooperative and intertwined Canadian and American imperialism is, or how much they rationalized their own subscription to those values when it benefited them. Now that they apparently just realized it was bad the whole time, they're making up some bullshit excuse that somehow removes any responsibility by Canadians to address the consequences of their own participation in that imperialism.