There seems to be a deep paranoia on this thread about social conservatves and especially those in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
First of all, social conservatives are found all across this country and not just in Alberta and Saskatchewan. In fact, Ontario elected Doug Ford with the help of social conservatives in that province, and his changes to sex education appeal to his social conservative base.
Secondly, social conservatives are a minority in Canada including in Alberta.
The Walrus published an article about social conservatism and Alberta. I've included an excerpt from that article to highlight the fact that while the province does have issues and problems, they are also pretty open minded on a lot of the social conservative issues which plague our nation.
https://thewalrus.ca/the-great-myth-of-alberta-conservatism/
"Many Canadians also associate Alberta with social conservatism—an assessment that isn’t entirely baseless, to be clear. A majority of the province—63 percent—supports reinstating capital punishment. Immigration questions, especially, are fraught: a recent poll by the Environics Institute and the Canadian Race Relations Foundation showed that Albertans are more skeptical about the validity of refugee claimants than other Canadians are, and 62 percent said too many new immigrants don’t adopt Canadian values. Commentators also cite Ralph Klein’s extreme reluctance when premier to support same-sex marriage in 2005 as well as the United Conservative Party’s current antagonism to gay-straight alliances in schools as representative examples of the provincial political id. Kenney has recently had to confront a bevy of questions relating to his earlier statements on abortion and gay rights.
But some of these examples are exceptions, ones which gain a high profile nationally because they fit a certain narrative about the province that doesn’t always reflect the political positions of the electorate more generally—or, indeed, even of big-tent conservative parties in which social conservatives remain a powerful and vocal minority that must be placated. Take one litmus-test issue for conservatism, for instance: abortion. Faron Ellis, a research chair at Lethbridge College, has run surveys on six contentious social issues every year since 2009. The most recent poll, in 2018, found that 84 percent of Albertans support a woman’s right to make abortion decisions. And national polls frequently place Alberta’s support of abortion rights within a few points of Ontario’s, Ellis has found. (Other surveys have found that Atlantic Canada is the region most opposed to abortion; it now reliably votes for the pro-choice Liberals.)
Albertans have grown noticeably more progressive on several other social questions in recent years as well, according to Ellis’s research: 92 percent support legalized medical marijuana, and 85 percent support doctor-assisted death. Support for same-sex marriage now stands at 82 percent (up from 66 percent when Ellis began tracking).
Despite the economic situation, a stark majority of Albertans—82 percent—polled last spring in an expansive social survey conducted on behalf of the CBC believed that more should be done to reduce the pay gap between men and women. Almost as many believe action should be taken to reduce wealth inequality. Only about half of those polled trusted the private sector to create jobs, and almost 80 percent felt the province was too reliant on the oil-and-gas sector."
Social conservatives are everywhere. Please lay off with your Alberta and Saskatchewan bashing please.