Gee, thanks. If you ever wonder why people from my province dislike the rest of the country, look no further than the above.
Since teachers were ordered back to work, students have been staging walkouts, the AFL has stated support for the ATA strike stating that a full-on general strike is on the table, support for the UCP has dropped in the polls, and the NDP has made it clear they will fight on this front in the legislature and elsewhere…
…and yet still to the rest of the country we’re just the brunt of the joke where we’re just the idiotic, cowardly conservatives that continue to shoot ourselves in the foot because people can’t be bothered to learn the dynamics of how this province operates. All you need to do is look at the last provincial election to see the NDP’s performance improvement in comparison to when Kenny’s UCP was elected, especially when it comes to how they performed in Calgary.
I would appreciate people more if they bothered to learn why Alberta is the way it is, but I guess it’s so much more simple to simply switch the brain off and continue calling us hicksville or such simply because it’s always the “in” thing to do.
Edit: Downvotes despite literal facts being presented, people giving false history in the replies whilst claiming that others aren’t educated, and insults directed at Albertans even more despite an Albertan not having done so to either them or the feds. Way to prove a point.
Person from Ontario who moved to Alberta 15 years ago here. Want to know the secret of why no one outside Alberta cares about Alberta? Because Alberta isn’t special, and the oil and gas patch isn’t special. Its a nice little windfall that will run out one day and the province has no plan B.
I’ve had to have this conversation with coworkers who complain about how no one in BC or out east care about Alberta and when I ask then if they care about automotive layoffs in Ontario, or loss of fisheries jobs on the east coast, or cost of living issues on the west coast, they outright say they don’t give a shit or they say “its different”. Its not different, Alberta isn’t the economic powerhouse of Canada that it thinks it is. Beyond that though, we have a really fucking stupid government that’s actively destroying what’s left of our education and healthcare systems, and the dumb fuck hicks outside Calgary and Edmonton do in fact eat it up hook line And sinker.
You’re blanketing the thoughts of an entire province’s population with those of a handful of people. There’s more than plenty people here that care about work issues elsewhere, it’s why a lot of people came here to begin with. My own family came out this way from Newfoundland because of a lack of job opportunities there at the time, and I know of others from Atlantic Canada, namely New Brunswick, who came this way because of a scarce job market out that way.
The very reason why there’s this to and fro negativity between Albertans and the rest of Canada is because the government doesn’t push for new job opportunities in Alberta that aren’t related to O&G. What are the feds doing for canola farmers? It is so easy to go out there and support our canola farmers through tariffs on olive oil and other cooking oils, as well as marketing campaigns to Canadian consumers, yet that doesn’t happen. How about supporting struggling sugar beet farmers, who are almost all based in Alberta and the only source of domestic sugar in Canada? It isn’t hard to develop frameworks for a domestic sugar market and develop a Domestic Sugar Policy like every other developed country, and yet we continue to screw over the people who literally feed us because it’s “not politically worthwhile”.
What about Danielle Smith teasing hydrogen vehicle manufacturing in Alberta? At no point did the feds say “yes, we support more jobs in Alberta, let’s get the ball rolling and work together on this”, leaving Smith backed into a corner of actually needing to do something. At no point have they talked about diversifying the economy in Alberta to help the province out of it’s woes, and at no point have they mentioned any programs to assist oil workers like those in my family who lost their jobs in finding new work, especially after they were left behind by the province like they were despite doing everything expected of them.
It is painfully easy to fall for someone who tells you how exceptional you are as they make your life worse when the opposite side hasn’t given you the support that you need. It’s also painfully easy to have disdain for the rest of the country as a result of that, but not everybody falls down that path.
Edit: Making this edit after Carney made the deal with China that benefitted Canadian canola farmers. I admit being wrong in retrospect, and while this will be my only edit to this comment, I’m hoping this trend continues in a way that benefits people here rather than leave them behind as has previously been the case.
The Albertans are HUGE pussies. Fuck the notwithstanding clause. Fuck the fines. You just gave up your rights!
Gee, thanks. If you ever wonder why people from my province dislike the rest of the country, look no further than the above.
Since teachers were ordered back to work, students have been staging walkouts, the AFL has stated support for the ATA strike stating that a full-on general strike is on the table, support for the UCP has dropped in the polls, and the NDP has made it clear they will fight on this front in the legislature and elsewhere…
…and yet still to the rest of the country we’re just the brunt of the joke where we’re just the idiotic, cowardly conservatives that continue to shoot ourselves in the foot because people can’t be bothered to learn the dynamics of how this province operates. All you need to do is look at the last provincial election to see the NDP’s performance improvement in comparison to when Kenny’s UCP was elected, especially when it comes to how they performed in Calgary.
I would appreciate people more if they bothered to learn why Alberta is the way it is, but I guess it’s so much more simple to simply switch the brain off and continue calling us hicksville or such simply because it’s always the “in” thing to do.
Edit: Downvotes despite literal facts being presented, people giving false history in the replies whilst claiming that others aren’t educated, and insults directed at Albertans even more despite an Albertan not having done so to either them or the feds. Way to prove a point.
Person from Ontario who moved to Alberta 15 years ago here. Want to know the secret of why no one outside Alberta cares about Alberta? Because Alberta isn’t special, and the oil and gas patch isn’t special. Its a nice little windfall that will run out one day and the province has no plan B.
I’ve had to have this conversation with coworkers who complain about how no one in BC or out east care about Alberta and when I ask then if they care about automotive layoffs in Ontario, or loss of fisheries jobs on the east coast, or cost of living issues on the west coast, they outright say they don’t give a shit or they say “its different”. Its not different, Alberta isn’t the economic powerhouse of Canada that it thinks it is. Beyond that though, we have a really fucking stupid government that’s actively destroying what’s left of our education and healthcare systems, and the dumb fuck hicks outside Calgary and Edmonton do in fact eat it up hook line And sinker.
You’re blanketing the thoughts of an entire province’s population with those of a handful of people. There’s more than plenty people here that care about work issues elsewhere, it’s why a lot of people came here to begin with. My own family came out this way from Newfoundland because of a lack of job opportunities there at the time, and I know of others from Atlantic Canada, namely New Brunswick, who came this way because of a scarce job market out that way.
The very reason why there’s this to and fro negativity between Albertans and the rest of Canada is because the government doesn’t push for new job opportunities in Alberta that aren’t related to O&G. What are the feds doing for canola farmers? It is so easy to go out there and support our canola farmers through tariffs on olive oil and other cooking oils, as well as marketing campaigns to Canadian consumers, yet that doesn’t happen. How about supporting struggling sugar beet farmers, who are almost all based in Alberta and the only source of domestic sugar in Canada? It isn’t hard to develop frameworks for a domestic sugar market and develop a Domestic Sugar Policy like every other developed country, and yet we continue to screw over the people who literally feed us because it’s “not politically worthwhile”.
What about Danielle Smith teasing hydrogen vehicle manufacturing in Alberta? At no point did the feds say “yes, we support more jobs in Alberta, let’s get the ball rolling and work together on this”, leaving Smith backed into a corner of actually needing to do something. At no point have they talked about diversifying the economy in Alberta to help the province out of it’s woes, and at no point have they mentioned any programs to assist oil workers like those in my family who lost their jobs in finding new work, especially after they were left behind by the province like they were despite doing everything expected of them.
It is painfully easy to fall for someone who tells you how exceptional you are as they make your life worse when the opposite side hasn’t given you the support that you need. It’s also painfully easy to have disdain for the rest of the country as a result of that, but not everybody falls down that path.
Edit: Making this edit after Carney made the deal with China that benefitted Canadian canola farmers. I admit being wrong in retrospect, and while this will be my only edit to this comment, I’m hoping this trend continues in a way that benefits people here rather than leave them behind as has previously been the case.