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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
One would have to be dumb not to realize that Alberta (or probably more accurately, the oil industry) hasn't been a huge driver of the national economy. Unemployed people from other provinces were going there for work. Ontario has been lagging for pretty much as long as the Alberta boom was happening. Just based on geography and population, there will always be a lot of commerce in Ontario, but with manufacturing and soft wood lumber getting decimated over the past few years, they don't have the economic clout they used to.
In regards to that graph though, doesn't the separation of the lines in recent years suggest that Alberta is becoming less of a driver, or am I reading that wrong? Of course there is still a direct proportional difference between the 2, but that would be true no matter which provinces you compared.
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Yeah. Plus I was drunk when I wrote the original post, and marginalized 'Toronto' over much.
The graph shows that the resource economy now has a far greater effect on national unemployment than previously, or perhaps more correctly the oil boom did - which isn't limited to Alberta.