Secession Speakeasy #202: Two Young Albertans on Why Their Generation Wants Independence

Released October 15, 2026.

Professor Wall (Grant M. Dahl) and the Secession Minstrel welcome Madison and MayCee Holmes, the sisters who co-host the At Home With Holmes podcast, days before Albertans vote on whether to seek a binding vote on leaving Canada. The sisters say affordability tops the list for young Albertans: friends still living with their parents, couples who want children but cannot buy a house, and, in MayCee’s account, 40 to 50 percent of a paycheck “not actually going towards your own prosperity.” The second concern is cultural. University students tell them campus is too volatile to raise the subject.

Madison says most of their generation sees independence as nonpartisan “because it’s their future and their future is not political.” The sisters count self-described Marxists among the young supporters they know, and say they have dropped political labels altogether. Asked by the Minstrel about Washington’s interest in Alberta’s oil, MayCee argues Alberta is already dependent on the United States, and that independence would let it make more of its own decisions. Madison adds that an Alberta freed of production caps and tanker bans would have “more to give, period.” MayCee also turns the anti-American mood around. When people tell her Canada is united against Trump, she asks what it is united toward, “and most of the time they pause.”

Also in this episode

• Wall on Daniel Miller’s appearance two episodes earlier, and Miller’s line that the independence issue “cuts weird”
• Friends who moved to Texas for school and work and say they will come home if the movement keeps growing
• Madison’s contrast between the older, comfortable base of the Forever Canada campaign and independence supporters under 40
• Why the sisters will keep working whatever the result, since this vote is, in MayCee’s words, “a referendum on having a referendum”
• Wall’s closing reading of Gandalf’s answer to Frodo in The Lord of the Rings

Related on the Partisan: Albertans Vote Monday on Whether to Seek a Binding Vote on Leaving Canada, and Secession Speakeasy #200: Daniel Miller on Where Independence Starts.

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