The prime minister essentially excommunicated Alberta from Confederation
If oil were in Quebec, it would be a law that people have to bathe in it before going outdoors. Politicians would bring thuribles to swing and spread holy odours before every oil rig. They would genuflect at every Esso sign, and kiss the gas pump at every rise in price.
As some poor toad wrote at the time, Quebec is the only province that can unilaterally alter the Canadian Constitution it did not sign, and cozily receive at the same time billions in equalization payments it did not earn — monies that come principally from a province whose product it abjures, stymies and derogates.Article content
And now back to Alberta and the other western provinces. Why is every western MP not fuming with rage at this peremptory, unilateral declaration from Ottawa to halt oil and gas development in Alberta? Which raises the only other question that matters: why put up with a political arrangement that betters provinces that abjure your industry, demean your voice and offer your well-being as a sacrifice for the applause of jet-setters, Hollywood trendoids, environmentalist obsessives and UN globalists?
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