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Originally posted by FlamesAddiction+May 1 2005, 01:02 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (FlamesAddiction @ May 1 2005, 01:02 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Maritime Q-Scout@May 1 2005, 06:31 PM
Alberta is on the gravy train right now, I actually think it's great.# Watch your money, invest, diversify.# Things are different now than they were 150 years ago when Nova Scotia was the Alberta of Canada.# Hard to believe eh?# Coal, Steel, Fishery, Forrestry, Farming.# It's safe to say that they thought they were diversified, mind you the economic knowelege was greatly less than it is now.# Now where's Nova Scotia?# The poorest province?# One of the most indebted?# Every single municipality is shrinking but one, and let's be honest, on life support due to the federal government.# Is it the welfare equalization that is keeping Nova Scotia afloat?# Yep.# Is that a bad thing?# I don't think so.
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Exactly.
And back then, Alberta was pumping out socialism and wanted the federal government involved.
All this separation talk is nothing more than materialism, pure an simple. [/b][/quote]
To be fair... Alberta churned out something much different that socialism in the 1930s... (I am aware that the CCF had their first meeting in Calgary, but they formed in Regina) The Social Credit party, even though the word 'Social' is in there was a VERY VERY right wing party, which resembles the Alberta Alliance more than the NDP. Their big thing was key government control over certain things while encouraging the free market ad nauseum. Most prevalent of this was the Alberta Treasury Branch, which gave people fair loans, since the Canadian banks interest rates bordered on usury at the time. The goal was to kickstart capitalism again, not to become socialized. The CCF model of actual socialism never caught on in Alberta. UFA of Alberta was also a fairly right wing party that focused on laissez-faire while providing support for farmers on years where hard work wasn't enough.
Some have argued that it was the tactics of the Socreds that got Alberta rolling again, not any so-called help from the federal government. The only help they gave was getting into a war which kickstarted the economy.
I also find it very disheartening that everyone assumes that Alberta is simply gonna fall into oblivion when oil "runs out". Nova Scotia never had the investments, diversifications and rainy day funds that modern Alberta has. Unbridled by the Feds, Alberta should be a very diversified economy by the time Oil is reduced to an industrial ingredient, rather than the lifeblood of society.