The Toronto Star has printed an interesting piece (could have been a blog) on the thoughts of Roger Gibbins is president and CEO of the Canada West Foundation, a public policy research group based in Calgary.
Separation for Alberta? Saskatchewan? Quebec?
If you read the article and insert Newfoundland and Labrador you start to re-think what we are doing in Canada. We - unlike Alberta have also been robbed of our fish (federal management) control of our offshore oil and gas (Canadian ownership and joint control) and our power (Canada did not interevene to allow inter-provincial trade (power corridor through Quebec).
These are issues we must deal with.
If we were our own country we would not be so anxious to gain the admiration of central Canadians by giving up the Lower Churchill to them - instead we would be competing for their industry.
The lead to the story reads:
In the coming decades, wealthy Alberta could leave Canada as Ottawa struggles to bridge the growing regional divide in the national economy...
Read the Story Here
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