This in particular sounds awesome:
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Today, Wildrose has also pledged to "aggressively address" the issue of transfers with Ottawa and the other provinces.
Smith said Alberta must never accept a repeat of the current equalization formula, which her party says is unfairly generous to provinces such as Quebec at Alberta's expense.
The Wildrose leader said the fiscal imbalance, at its peak, has seen Albertans pay $20 billion more in taxes to Ottawa than it received back. Among the options laid out in the Wildrose policy book is a constitutional challenge on the equalization issue.
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Whereas this just sounds hopelessly naive:
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And Smith, whose party shares many ties with Harper's conservatives, said she expects the Wildrose would find a "partner" in the federal government.
"We finally have a majority government with a prime minister from this province who understands our needs and understands provincial rights and is willing to work with us to make some of those changes to rebalance some of these issues in our federation," she said in an interview with the Herald this week.
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[SOURCE: http://www.canada.com/business/Wildr...edium=twitter]
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