One note on the climate, is that in the West there is lots of forest fires that are viewed as being due to climate change. So out west, the environmental question is pretty in focus.
In my opinion, equalization is not the reason for Alberta seperatism. It's the stated reason, because it's easy and simple to explain. Albertans want low taxes as all men do, but I don't think we hate the idea of taxes per se like Americans do, we agree with the rest of Canada on this. But what we hate is that we put all of this money into confederation, and still get treated like enemies, and have our prosperity suppressed. If Canada did everything to make Alberta succeed, Alberta wouldn't mind returning steep dividends. Today the culture war, outright hostility, and pipelines are the reason. Very similar to brexit,brexit ran on lies that it would save the money, free the British economy. But realistically, Britain just wanted out. Alberta has reasons that make sense though, not just matters of pride.
Also, you guys should check out Cory Morgan's recent videos. He's a guy that in the 90's founded an Alberta seperatist party, and wrote a book on the subject. Today he puts out short cogent videos on what the realities of an independent Alberta would look like.
Also, in regards to oil and gas money, lots of men work extremely hard to make those extremely good wages. So telling an Albertan "that should be for the wealth of the country!", it's like nunavut saying it should have rights over Ontario's or bc's logs. A logger would say to go away, he doesn't care that the logs were in his backyard, he worked damn hard to make anything of them. However, if you're like my uncle, and had 40 oil leases on your 2500 acres of pasture, in a time before directional drilling, so only straight down. Yeah, those people got alot of free money by dumb luck.
One note on the climate, is that in the West there is lots of forest fires that are viewed as being due to climate change. So out west, the environmental question is pretty in focus.
In my opinion, equalization is not the reason for Alberta seperatism. It's the stated reason, because it's easy and simple to explain. Albertans want low taxes as all men do, but I don't think we hate the idea of taxes per se like Americans do, we agree with the rest of Canada on this. But what we hate is that we put all of this money into confederation, and still get treated like enemies, and have our prosperity suppressed. If Canada did everything to make Alberta succeed, Alberta wouldn't mind returning steep dividends. Today the culture war, outright hostility, and pipelines are the reason. Very similar to brexit,brexit ran on lies that it would save the money, free the British economy. But realistically, Britain just wanted out. Alberta has reasons that make sense though, not just matters of pride.
Also, you guys should check out Cory Morgan's recent videos. He's a guy that in the 90's founded an Alberta seperatist party, and wrote a book on the subject. Today he puts out short cogent videos on what the realities of an independent Alberta would look like.
Also, in regards to oil and gas money, lots of men work extremely hard to make those extremely good wages. So telling an Albertan "that should be for the wealth of the country!", it's like nunavut saying it should have rights over Ontario's or bc's logs. A logger would say to go away, he doesn't care that the logs were in his backyard, he worked damn hard to make anything of them. However, if you're like my uncle, and had 40 oil leases on your 2500 acres of pasture, in a time before directional drilling, so only straight down. Yeah, those people got alot of free money by dumb luck.
Definitely prefer conversations over interviews
Just contemplating the concept of natural hierarchy and unchosen bonds in relation to the Papacy.