I see what Flash is saying and agree, but I don’t think any region escapes having their own political spectrum.
Alberta certainly leans right to the point that if you actually placed the provincial NDP in some other regions, they’d look quite comfortably centrist. Here? Some label them as far left socialists, which is funny. The PC party under Redford and Stelmach certainly became Alberta centrist, but I think they still would’ve comfortably placed far enough to the right in regions that aren’t conservative hot zones.
In Alberta, centrism is still very much a conservative ideology. You don’t even have to cross the imaginary border between right and left to be considered “left wing.” You can pretty easily identify this by the way the Federal Liberals, a center-right party, are viewed as center-left or “worse.”
It’s completely different in the states, where Obama would be center-right if his policies were that of an Alberta’s politician, but down there he’s viewed as a representation of the left. Canada in general skews further left than the US, and that’s true even of Alberta.
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