Colby Cosh: The Easterners who admit Alberta separatists have a point

“Anyway, Ibbitson is making a good-faith attempt to mirror Alberta separatist complaints about the Laurentian oppressor, and the effort ought to be honoured; I’m just reporting my own sense that there is a flavour of half-hearted box-checking to it. Ibbitson echoes separatist literature in mentioning the corrupted birth of Alberta and Saskatchewan, who were denied constitutional control of their natural resources for 25 years. He acknowledges fiscal equalization as an end-run around that restored constitutional order, a means of confiscating the local windfall; he revives the despised memory of the National Energy Program (1980-85). Read More

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