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Originally Posted by CrusaderPi
Nobody won the lottery. Albertans, for three generations, have worked their collective asses off to earn this wealth. Now contrast that to provinces that are net sponges in confederation who have sat on their collective asses for three generations, yet still receive wealth.
You think the oil stops at the border? Maybe that's how they decided to partition Alberta and Saskatchewan. Speaking of oil in places not named Alberta, hows that offshore oil industry doing out east?
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It doesn't stop at the border, but Alberta has exponentially more oil, combined with a good 30 years head-start. Canadian geologists had been unsuccessful in finding any major oil reserves in Saskatchewan until 1953. If our positions were reversed and commercial oil development in Alberta was not viable until the 1950s and our reserves were significantly smaller than those of our neighbours, I'm pretty sure we wouldn't be the economic powerhouse that we are today. Part of our success is hard work, sure. But it has more to do with our geology than our culture.