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.
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.
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