Why are so many BC'ers anti-Albertan?

They hate Albertans because there are as many fucking stupid and blockheaded as anywhere else?
Just listened to 1/2 hour of explanations on the radio from oil experts on the situation that lead to Vancouver's outrageous prices. Then the next fucking 9 callers blamed taxes and Horgan for those prices.
Same reason I cancelled holding my Computing For Seniors community classes. Fucking fingers in their ears, won't listen ever - so they can't hear nor learn dick shit. Then start crowing five minutes later because "Windows" forgot their password... such a useless piece of shit...

Just like here!

So many BC’ers (particularly in Vancouver) seem to forget that “coastal elites” isn’t as much of a thing here in Canada as in the US. In Canada, “flyover country” is anywhere that isn’t southern Ontario or urban Quebec. To the Laurentian elites, anyone to the west is just a Westerner. That’s why Energy East gets killed and the Trans Mountain gets nationalized and pushed forward.

The better question is, why are so many Canadians anti-Albertan?

Now that it looks like Trudeau’s gambit to keep Notley in power and the UCP out (while slowly strangling the energy sector in Alberta) has failed, prepare for Justin to switch to the more direct route of his father, Marc Lalonde and Keith Davey. If the Laurentian elites can’t fully possess the golden goose, they will slaughter it. Funnelling money to Quebec through equalization is no longer sufficient to placate Justin’s Central Canadian base. And Justin thinks he can just keep borrowing money to make up for the loss of revenue. Butts hates the oil industry, Justin hates Alberta, and the Laurentian elites hate any province other than Ontario or Quebec trying to have a say in national affairs or grow their economies. Alberta will be crushed not just to remove a long-standing political nuisance, but as an example to anyone else in the “colonies” who might get ideas above their station.

With Alberta neutralized as a political and economic force, the next step would be to manipulate the Conservative opposition party to re-attach “Progressive” to its name and re-Laurentianize it ideologically, allowing it then return to its previous function as the ideologically compatible spare tire for the Liberals when they’ve spent too long in power and need a break (or have the temerity to choose a non-Quebecois leader).

Once Kenney has been elected premier, all bets are off. The two-generation Trudeau program will reach its conclusion, and a powerful voice against the Laurentian elites will be silenced. The western provinces (yes, even BC) will be for all intents and purposes and for all time colonies of Ontario and Quebec.

One of my favourite comments about Alberta from naive folks elsewhere in Canada is “Why don’t they just apply all that technical know-how to clean energy and become a leader in that?” The obvious answer to anyone with a knowledge of Canadian history is that the elites in Southern Ontario and Quebec would never allow that to happen. Their problem with Alberta having become an economic power through the oil industry wasn’t the “oil” part so much as the “economic power” part. Industrial policy going all the way back to Macdonald has favoured Central Canada. The only reason they couldn’t stop the prairie provinces from prospering in natural resource development was that you couldn’t simply pick up the resource deposits and relocate them to Ontario or Quebec. Green energy manufacturing isn’t so geographically bound, and thus the federal government could play regional favourites successfully.

It’s a shame that the issue of regional justice for the Western provinces, the prairies in particular, got so pinned to the left-right dynamic. The federal NDP used to advocate for westerners, before Jack Layton took the party from associate status to full membership in the Laurentian Consensus. Nowadays, the NDP finds prairie folk too white, too Christian and too rural for them to care that much about. Progressivism in Canada has largely abandoned people who work with their hands in smaller communities in favour of professors, activists and “creative class” types in large urban centres.

That leaves westerners (Vancouver excepted) with no one to speak for them but the political right, who like them for all the same reasons progressives don’t. But there’s nothing inherently left wing about handing out money to Bombardier, or attacking the economies of regions of the country that don’t vote for your preferred party or contain your type of people, or for preferring politicians from Quebec to those from elsewhere in the country. That’s Laurentian elite crap, and they’ve bet all their chips on the Liberal Party. PET is their deity, and guess what that makes Justin. That leaves a lot of room to oppose their agenda on both the right and left. But that would force the NDP to put down their Richard Florida books, tone down the intersectional identity politics, tell Avi and Naomi to get out of Toronto every once in a while and, most of all, to reconnect with tradespeople and farmers.

I agree with most of this. The foundational structure of this country will always engage in a reactionary defense of itself, even if having another center of political and economic strength elsewhere in the country is to the obvious advantage of everyone, even if just in terms of the revenue it generates. No different than anywhere else in the world where the entrenched elite and neo-nobility automatically crushes anything that might challenge their unquestionable rule over the mass.