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Offline wilber

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Re: Culture Culture
« Reply #30 on: October 12, 2021, 01:46:47 pm »
1. Get rid of how ?   I sure don't hear those monikers very much if at all.


I think there is parochialism everywhere but you can't really compare a huge decentralized country like Canada with smaller more homogeneous countries in Europe.

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2. I think you have the germ of a good idea here, but I don't understand how making the federal government more powerful in peoples' lives will make, say, Alberta feel more Canadian.  We bought a pipeline for them and they hate central Canada even more than before.

2. Alberta can be frustrating at times but a lot of it is pushback against RoC attitudes, like the RoC refusal to recognize Alberta has been carrying this country fiscally for decades while calling Albertans whiners. We bought Canada a pipeline, not Alberta. Canada will own the line and revenues that come from it. It is no wonder Albertans get pissed off when other Canadians say they bought them a pipeline after those same Canadians just ran the private company which was trying to build it out of the country. Shear hypocrisy.
 
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3. Can you explain more ?  I feel like "oil resources" are controlled by the entities - mostly American - who own them.

In most other countries like Norway, the country owns resources, not the provinces. But again, these are smaller countries without the regional differences and histories.

4: Ditto
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