Lorne Gunter: Unity requires Central Canada to take Alberta grievances seriously I am not a separatist. And the separatists are doing their damnedest to keep it that way.

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I am not a separatist. And the separatists are doing their damnedest to keep it that way.

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Having said that, central Canadian politicians and journalists continue to belittle our province and treat us the bad guys of Confederation whenever we object to the continued fleecing of our province to pay for the federal government’s favoured schemes in Quebec, Ontario and other Liberal-voting regions.

It may turn out to be less bad under Mark Carney than it was under Justin Trudeau. The Trudeau government did all it could to shut down our major industry in the name of saving the planet and in the process drove hundreds of billions in investment away from our province.

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