Why are so many BC'ers anti-Albertan?
herbie @ Thu Apr 12, 2018 7:27 pm
No that's how you have to explain things to those clueless about their own system and so busy rim jobbing the USA they won't take time to learn the difference.
DrCaleb @ Fri Apr 13, 2018 6:02 am
BRAH BRAH:
Alberta doesn't have high incomes anymore, those days are over.
I made more last year than ever. And that's unlikely to change in the foreseeable future. Pretty much everyone I know is in the same situation.
Stop reading The Rebel, and perhaps you'll be grounded back in what the rest of us call 'reality'.
Individualist @ Fri Apr 13, 2018 9:18 am
BeaverFever BeaverFever:
Ontarians spend very little time thinking about Alberta at all actually. At least in political/economic terms. But from the sounds of it on CKA, it seems Albertans are obsessed with Ontario. Sounds like some of the Albertan right keep a picture of Kathleen Wynne right next to the one of their highschool crush who never even knew they existed. 
Ontarians spend little time thinking about Alberta or any other prairie province because they are told by their own media and elites that they don’t have to - “those people” don’t matter. They’re not part of the national conversation. It’s only when people in those provinces remind Central Canada that they exist and have a voice that things get tense. It’s not a coincidence that many of those who feel Western alienation most acutely are people who, like Stephen Harper, moved there from Ontario. When you grew up in an upper tier region, you feel the difference on a personal level. You just take for granted that a Canadian is a Canadian, and it doesn’t even occur to you that someone would consider you a lesser Canadian because you’re in a province that’s not Upper or Lower Canada. When you grow up on the prairies, you just get used to it. You only notice it when you move to the centre, and you start not mentioning where you come from when speaking to your Toronto neighbours.
$1:
Nobody cares about Quebecs politics or economy either. The Alberta-Quebec dichotomy you mention is outdated by about 20 years.
I thought that was true for a while as well. I was mistaken, and so are you.
Jabberwalker @ Fri Apr 13, 2018 9:26 am
PluggyRug PluggyRug:
BRAH BRAH:
Good God not every subject has to do with Trump,
It does for lefties, that's all they have.
Well, it's one of the things that is seriously wrong with the world at this point in history. No doubt, your grandfather was writing letters to the editor: "Hitler, Hitler, Hitler! Is that all you retards can write about?" back in 1942.
bootlegga @ Fri Apr 13, 2018 11:21 am
Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:
Thanos Thanos:
Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:
Why are so many Albertans anti-Canadian?
Why do so many other Canadians hate Alberta almost as much as they hated Nazi Germany?
"Let the Eastern Bastards Freeze in the dark."
I'm not saying that bumper sticker was entirely justified, but I think Ontarians would have the same sentiment if the federal government stole $50-100 billion of their wealth and gave it to the West.
$1:
...the NEP was considered by Albertans to be among the most unfair federal policies ever implemented. Scholars calculated the program cost Alberta between $50- and $100-billion.
http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/a-l ... ears-later
BRAH @ Fri Apr 13, 2018 7:30 pm
DrCaleb DrCaleb:
BRAH BRAH:
Alberta doesn't have high incomes anymore, those days are over.
I made more last year than ever. And that's unlikely to change in the foreseeable future. Pretty much everyone I know is in the same situation.
Stop reading The Rebel, and perhaps you'll be grounded back in what the rest of us call 'reality'.
You have Rebel Derangement Syndrome sorry there's no cure and of course you're making more you are on the Dipper payroll. You also need a dose of reality in how the average Albertan is struggling to survive.
BRAH @ Fri Apr 13, 2018 7:32 pm
PluggyRug PluggyRug:
BRAH BRAH:
Good God not every subject has to do with Trump,
It does for lefties, that's all they have.
They also have love for Hitler and Nazis when trying to tear down someone who doesn't play nice with them.
Jabberwalker @ Sat Apr 14, 2018 5:05 am
Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:
Thanos Thanos:
Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:
Why are so many Albertans anti-Canadian?
"Let the Eastern Bastards Freeze in the dark."
I'm not saying that bumper sticker was entirely justified, but I think Ontarians would have the same sentiment if the federal government stole $50-100 billion of their wealth and gave it to the West.
$1:
...the NEP was considered by Albertans to be among the most unfair federal policies ever implemented. Scholars calculated the program cost Alberta between $50- and $100-billion.
http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/a-l ... ears-later
They did that for decades before the transfer money finally started flowing out of the West to the East in the 1980s.
Mowich @ Sat Apr 14, 2018 12:27 pm
LikeFineWine LikeFineWine:
BC blames us Albertains for the price of EVERYTHING going up.
Oh BC we do love you, why can't you love us back lol
Oh BC we do love you, why can't you love us back lol
Love may be a tad strong, LFW, but I am in complete and total support of your government's attempts to get their product to tide-water. There are, in fact, many of us in the Interior of BC where we are all but forgotten by the Left Coast, who support you.
Mowich @ Sat Apr 14, 2018 12:30 pm
Thanos Thanos:
I'm assuming it's more of a Vancouver thing than it is a BC thing because Vancouver seems to have the same contempt for the interior as they do for Alberta.
Thought that last bit needed some emphasis, Thanos as it is so true.
Mowich @ Sat Apr 14, 2018 12:37 pm
Thanos Thanos:
Andy T - "here, hold my beer"
Just remembered the Hedy Fry thing where in Parliament she openly accused the people in Prince George of being a bunch of cross-burning KKK members. And isn't she still the MP for Vancouver-West, like for over two decades of being re-elected after saying something like that?
This happens a lot, everywhere, in cities where the dilettantes gather in such numbers that they can swing political seats in their favour. And with numbers comes power, even more so when the local CBC or Global team can't be bothered to send a reporter to Merritt or Kamloops or Prince Rupert to see what people there think of, say, the pipeline issues and instead go gather the opinions at 420 Day in Stanley Park and project it as "this is what all BC'ers think".
Just remembered the Hedy Fry thing where in Parliament she openly accused the people in Prince George of being a bunch of cross-burning KKK members. And isn't she still the MP for Vancouver-West, like for over two decades of being re-elected after saying something like that?
This happens a lot, everywhere, in cities where the dilettantes gather in such numbers that they can swing political seats in their favour. And with numbers comes power, even more so when the local CBC or Global team can't be bothered to send a reporter to Merritt or Kamloops or Prince Rupert to see what people there think of, say, the pipeline issues and instead go gather the opinions at 420 Day in Stanley Park and project it as "this is what all BC'ers think".
What a novel idea, actually asking BCers outside the lower mainland how they feel about the pipeline. Not surprised though, Thanos. For reasons of their own, Canadian media are not interested in opinions that do not come from the Left Coast - just as they are not interested in what the FNs who DO support the pipeline extension have to say.
Mowich @ Sat Apr 14, 2018 12:39 pm
BRAH BRAH:
Thanos Thanos:
Andy T - "here, hold my beer"
Just remembered the Hedy Fry thing where in Parliament she openly accused the people in Prince George of being a bunch of cross-burning KKK members. And isn't she still the MP for Vancouver-West, like for over two decades of being re-elected after saying something like that?
This happens a lot, everywhere, in cities where the dilettantes gather in such numbers that they can swing political seats in their favour. And with numbers comes power, even more so when the local CBC or Global team can't be bothered to send a reporter to Merritt or Kamloops or Prince Rupert to see what people there think of, say, the pipeline issues and instead go gather the opinions at 420 Day in Stanley Park and project it as "this is what all BC'ers think".
Just remembered the Hedy Fry thing where in Parliament she openly accused the people in Prince George of being a bunch of cross-burning KKK members. And isn't she still the MP for Vancouver-West, like for over two decades of being re-elected after saying something like that?
This happens a lot, everywhere, in cities where the dilettantes gather in such numbers that they can swing political seats in their favour. And with numbers comes power, even more so when the local CBC or Global team can't be bothered to send a reporter to Merritt or Kamloops or Prince Rupert to see what people there think of, say, the pipeline issues and instead go gather the opinions at 420 Day in Stanley Park and project it as "this is what all BC'ers think".
The Lamestream Fake News Canadian Media is pushed the Anti-Trans Mountain Pipeline narative which helped get the NDP eventually elected and instead of asking the average BC resident as you pointed out they get opnions from people who have no real concerns other than to create chaos and mayhem while trying to find parking spots so they can protest Kinder Morgan in Nothern Burnaby.
Hedy Fry is the biggest race baiting Liberal who never fully apologied for her cross burning comments.
Mowich @ Sat Apr 14, 2018 12:41 pm
Individualist Individualist:
$1:
He’s playing a longer game than the B.C. government is. He’s “fighting” just hard enough to convince the average Canadian that he’s not his father when it comes to Alberta. Imagine if the oil were in Quebec and it’s export were somehow being blocked by another province (that wasn’t Ontario). In fact, imagine how different Canadian politIcs of the past 50 years or so would have been if Quebec had the oil and Bombardier had been headquartered in Calgary. Make no mistake. This is one “fight” Justin Trudeau has no intention of winning.
Justin’s “passive support” strategy only works if BC voters catch on that he’s only making token pro-pipeline noises to not look like he’s acting on an old family grudge. His end goal is clearly the economic de-toothing of Alberta, a “if we can’t have your oil wealth then we’ll make sure you can’t either” scorched earth policy directed at the most “troublesome” of the prairie coloni...uh, provinces. Justin doesn’t need Alberta oil revenue because he and Butts literally believe that you can generate a successful economy purely on government spending and boutique industries like green energy and, uh, sticky green.
Mowich @ Sat Apr 14, 2018 12:44 pm
Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:
Why are so many Albertans anti-Canadian?
Mowich @ Sat Apr 14, 2018 12:45 pm
Thanos Thanos:
Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:
Why are so many Albertans anti-Canadian?
Why do so many other Canadians hate Alberta almost as much as they hated Nazi Germany?