Boo! Hoo!
I'm taking my ball and going home.
Here we go again!
The new Alberta alienation: Resenting East and West
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-alienation-pipeline-1.4623938
I'm rather saddened by all the discord and selfishness coming out of the woodwork from BC, Alberta and Quebec. Apparently any nationbuilding is impossible due to shortsighted nimbyism. Canada will be much diminished if Canadians can't pull together and other nations will surpass and replace us in the global order. We will become a nation in name only, composed of parochial, decining regions.
If patriotism is the refuge of the scoundrel, arrogance and hubris must be the refuge of the ignoramus.
Just because Alberta is having a temper tandrum doesn't mean it's Canada's fault. If the situation were reversed, and it were BC that had oil and was trying to get a pipeline through Alberta, Alberta would never let it through. Alberta would put its own economic well-being first.
It must be quite frustrating that Alberta has so much resource wealth. Even though they very much share their prosperity with the rest of Canada, it is evident that the envy and jealousy of the rest of Canada will never diminish. The problem is simply that Canada's oil is under Alberta's dirt.
If the oil was under Ontario or Quebec, there would be no issue but Alberta must be held up to ridicule and economic throttling because they just have so much that the rest of Canada does not.
It'll be interesting to see what Canada and the world are like after the petroleum era. Hopefully it'll be much better than it is now. The sooner we transition the better.