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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
How can this province have an anti-Ottawa stance when we elected 27/28 MPs from the majority party, including the Prime Minister? Maybe an anti-Eastern Canada stance (moslty Quebec and Ontario), but I'm pretty sure lots of people in this province like who's in Ottawa.
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Sure we do. But the people currently in Ottawa won't be there forever, and if Alberta has a desire to discuss its relationship with the feds, now is actually the time to do it. Certainly not when we have an eastern-based party that needs to spend billions of our dollars to buy votes in Quebec and Ontario.
Now, that isn't to say that I support building firewalls. But there are problems with how the provinces and feds interact in some cases, and there is nothing scary about evaluating our options.