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Geoff Russ: Alberta is not the black sheep of Confederation
Liberals recklessly denounce the province again and again
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However, the way that Albertans, and westerners more broadly, are often treated in the national conversation is a disgrace. They are not a hostile faction that must be contained by the established political and economic castes of Ottawa and Toronto.
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The best example of this remains Justin Trudeau’s assertion in 2010 that Canada was “better served when there are more Quebecers in charge than Albertans … I’m a Liberal, so of course I think so.”
Trudeau’s time as prime minister is the ultimate proof that he was categorically wrong in that regard. However, that has not stopped the paranoid and dramatic bureaucrats of Eastern Canada from indulging in Alberta-bashing. For example, the Toronto Star published an op-ed last month declaring that Alberta’s planned health-care reform was “a threat to every Canadian.”
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