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Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout
You realize Harper does the same thing right?
Just replace Quebec with Alberta.
I'm not saying I'm a Trudeau supporter but to win government you need Ontario plus one of the other big population bases. Harper focuses on the West, Trudeau on Quebec.
As an Albertan you totally should be backing the Alberta horse. Same reason as a Québécois you should be backing the Quebec horse.
As a Maritimer we're screwed regardless.
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It's hard to try to paint them as being exclusively from a province and having those interests as their motivation when both of them have lived in different places and have heritage from all over. I hear where you are coming from but it's not really that simple, their ideologies are way more significant then where they've lived.
The thing is Harper isn't fully an Alberta horse, he lives in a nice safe conservative seat out here in the west and of course went to U of C after he dropped out of U of T but he was born and raised in Ontario and has pretty much lived in Ottawa since 1993 (first term as an MP) and he hasn't really done a lot exclusively for the west that has stood out for me.
Trudeau's mom is from BC and he lived in Vancouver for a while, mostly Quebecois in upbringing but if I recall correctly even PET's mom was Scottish so he's like 25% French.
They both pander to the groups that feel some kind of ownership of them a bit rhetorically but I think that's all it is.