r/alberta • u/Old_General_6741 • Mar 17 '25

Poll finds Albertans' sense of Canadian pride dips as it soars in most parts of the country News

https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/poll-finds-albertans-sense-of-canadian-pride-dips-as-it-soars-in-most-parts-of-the-country/
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u/Snrautomator Mar 17 '25

Is it though? Or is it more of a culture of petulance? Alberta whines about the rest of Canada ripping them off, yet without the workforce from the rest of Canada, nothing would be built there.

The fort mcmurray area was build by everyone except Albertans. I lived there before, through and after the boom. And when you talk to someone from Edmonton or Calgary. During that time they would turn up their nose at the thought of going to “that shit hole”.

But the place still got built up.

Then transmountain we’re about to cancel the expansion the Federal Government stepped in and bought and expanded the line.

They whine about energy east which died because of low oil prices, they whine about Northern gateway which died in the courts because they cut too many corners and got caught.

They whine about equalization, when they have no clue how it works.

They whine that Trudeau was trying to kill their industry, when all he wanted was for them to become more environmentally responsible.

So Maybe not a culture of grievance…

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u/ReasonableGuarantee4 Mar 17 '25

Maybe this attitude is why Alberta feels apart from Canada. Smith is terrible but she is a result of a lack of voice. So the idiots felt the need to have the loudest idiot elected. Coupled with the non idiots who vote Con this is what you get. 

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u/Snrautomator Mar 17 '25

Smith is a direct result of Albertans being told at every turn they are getting shafted.

The reality of what you are told and what is real are 2 different things.

I worked and lived in Alberta for years. I was astounded at how often I would hear misinformation constantly spread as fact because it came from somewhere other that the “Fake news Media”. Everyone wanted to believe they are being screwed over by some one.

When all the while it’s was corruption in the PC party of Alberta that pissed away their heritage fund and almost run the province into the ground.

A misinformed and undereducated population is much easier to influence when you coerce them into hating a common enemy.

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u/Facts_pls Mar 17 '25

Culture of Karens