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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I hear what you're saying, but I don't know if
I mean the perception from out East is those Dirty Westerners and their dirty oil, and they're rich and should give us more of their money.
Out west is the perception that those Quebecers are addicted to federal money and they sponge off of us, and now they're blackmailing us for more and screwing us over.
There is no target that you can give these two groups that will remove the focus from the above. The resentments are too old and the scars are too deep.
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You're right, but I think the heart of the issue is bigger than Canada. The oilsands are an international target. They are big enough to be symbolic, in a place where the access to info is easy and you won't get shot for pr stunts, with a populace that hyperventilates when we think the rest of the world is cross with us. Hollywood idiots can come here and trash things they don't understand and we'll ask for an autograph, give them a press conference and a sweet tax subsidy for their troubles.
If international attention found a different villain a huge chunk of the domestic opposition would go away. I don't know how you do that though.