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Originally posted by octothorp@May 13 2005, 09:57 AM
Well, you are right about that, but we have nobody to blame but ourselves. Any province or state that never shifts allegience always gets the short end of the stick when compared to swing provinces or states. In Canada, every region of the country except Alberta has the possibility to change allegience (not necessarily right now, but over the course of, say, 10 years). I have no idea how Ontario, or Quebec, or BC, or the Maritimes or the other prairie provinces would vote in a 2015 election. But I know that whatever happens, the only way Alberta does not vote for the conservatives is if Alberta starts up another right-wing grass roots party. Even the federal Conservative government has sold out Alberta in the past, because it knows that Alberta will always vote conservative, regardless. I agree that this current gesture is tremendously unfair. It stinks of Clark selling out our oil resources in 1979 as a way of appeasing Ontario voters and holding together a weak minority government. We are completely fataed, unless at some point we demonstrate that we are not simply an unshiftable mass of Conservative loyalists. Problem is that right now, there are not a lot of valid options to the Conservatives.
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Your first post is exactly why Canada is worthless to Alberta.
The so-called federal government will never give us anything until we hand them even more power. Just another reason why Confederation needs a complete makeover.