OREANDA-NEWS. The website of American media company Politico writes that political leaders in the western provinces of Canada are discussing the idea of ​​separation from the rest of the country due to the victory of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party in recent parliamentary elections.

On October 22, it became known that the Liberal Party of Trudeau won the parliamentary elections, but did not gain an absolute majority of 170 seats.

As the Politico publication emphasizes, so called “Wexit” is spoken in the western provinces of Canada, these territories depend on the oil industry. “Is it real? Yeah. People are mad. I’ve never seen it like this this,” Randy Hoback, a Conservative Party member of Parliament in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, said.

It is reported that for at least during one year, residents of the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan have called for political change in Ottawa, while attempts to build a coastal pipeline expansion continue to falter and Canadian farmers suffer from trade disagreements with China.

The publication also says that, despite the majority of parliamentary seats in the region is Conservative, the federal leadership remains be represented by the Liberal Party, which led to “talk of a break with the rest of Canada” on social media.

At the same time, on October 25, Global News reported that the Wexit movement gained popularity after the parliamentary elections. It was noted that the number of supporters of the idea arose in the province of Alberta, and their Facebook page received 250 thousand likes.