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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
It's never a good situation to be a landlocked country. It also wouldn't be ideal to be a small country of a few million wedged between one of 30 million and one of 300 million. Alberta would be bullied so much that it wouldn't be able to develop its own policies.
Even though Alberta might benefit economically for a while, eventually the oil boom will wear off. Look at Nova Scotia when coal and ship building were the big things. It was the strongest economy in North America.
Also, Alberta does not support Ontario.
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Ontario officially became a net deficit province in the equalization scheme of things this year. So technically, at the moment Alberta does support Ontario. However, this is the first time that has happened and I doubt it will last, so in reality it's not correct to state that.
I found it amusing though that Newfoundland became a "have" province at the same time that Ontario became a so-called "have not" province. Isn't that one of the signs of the apocalypse?