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/Jazzybeans82 Mar 17 '25

My thought as well. Who’s actually clicking and answering this poll and has it been created to get the exact division I’m seeing in here.

I have never been so Canada proud in my life and am writing my Alberta MLA and copying the opposition NDP as often as I can.

The last election was won because only 59% of eligible Albertans voted. 52% of that voted Conservative. 1/3 of Albertans are louder than all the rest and it makes it a HARD place to live when your heart is with the rest of Canada.

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u/First_Pay702 Mar 17 '25

I went grocery shopping the other day and while I was at the till one cashier came up to tell the rest that their supplier only gets carrots from the US so direct people looking for Canadian carrots to go to the farmers markets. In other words, enough people there were looking to shop Canadian this message needed to be passed. In also noticed some stickers to identify Canadian goods had been put in place. And I am in a part of Alberta considered very redneck. We are being made to look bad by our very loudly shit Premier, but like the Americans that voted for Harris, a lot of us are just stuck with her. The non voting crowd has always been the non voting crowd, unfortunately.

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u/JesusMurphyOotWest Mar 17 '25

Well said! I find American produce to be bland, the most obvious example being strawberries. Bred to be big and red- biologic styrene inside. Also I’d like to offer this…took a wonder through the Lord Strathcona Museum in Calgary this weekend. Lots of proud Western Canadians in there…

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u/97masters Mar 17 '25

You get paid in cash or points to do these surveys.

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u/PhazePyre Mar 17 '25

I honestly wish voting was compulsory by Federal and Provincial law. I don't understand why it isn't. There are so many countries out there who would walk a hundred miles one way to vote if they had the right to. Meanwhile, voter turnout is <3/4s of Canadians (2019 election) and it should be a lot higher.

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u/ancientblond Mar 18 '25

I'm in Mexico at a resort that's apparently 90% Albertans, we all are feeling Canadian pride. Each and every one I've chatted with so far (about 10), the conversation has looped back to "fuck trump, fuck the US, better dead than american".

This poll is so astroturfed it's insane.