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Subject: Re: erratum [Re: no matter ...] & errors
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From: James Rogers <jamesr@best.com>
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On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 12:48, Owen Byrne wrote:
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> I suppose Canada, which is supposed to be a "loose confederation" of 2
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> founding nations (French and English) can be cited as a success. The
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> jury is still out, but so far only a few brief rebellions and
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> referendums and such, still together after 130+ years.
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Alberta, and to a lesser extent some of the other Western provinces, is
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definitely not happy with the current arrangement. Some of this has to
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do with the strange way the Canadian government is structured. When I
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was last up in Alberta (a month ago), the newspapers were reporting
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something like 70% of Albertans favor separating from Canada, and over
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several distinct issues.
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The problem is basically that while Alberta is an economic powerhouse
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that is propping up the weaker economies of the Eastern provinces, their
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interests are openly and unapologetically ignored by the government in
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Ottawa. While Alberta sends something like twice the tax dollars to
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Ottawa per capita of the average Canadian, they only have token
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representation in the federal government. While I'm not clear on
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exactly how the government works up there, representation is not
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entirely based on population, and it works out that some eastern
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provinces with populations smaller than the city of Calgary alone have
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substantially more representatives in the legislature than the entire
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province of Alberta.
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The long and the short of it is that the eastern provinces use Alberta
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as a personal ATM machine for their social programs while not even so
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much as throwing Alberta a bone, and are able to do so because even the
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sparsely populated eastern provinces can out-vote Alberta despite having
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fewer people. Or something like that. The Canadian government is less
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restricted than the US government, so they can do strange things, like
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having restrictive regulations that only apply to certain provinces,
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Alberta being on the receiving end of many such obscenities. It is
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essentially a much worse version of what is happening in the
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inter-mountain West of the US. Unlike the US case though, the rest of
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Canada would really be hurting if they weren't receiving all those tax
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dollars from Alberta. OTOH, Alberta would probably thrive.
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I have friends in Alberta, and visit occasionally, but I'm not totally
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clear on everything that goes on in that country, due to my partial
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unfamiliarity with how the government works up there, so I'm a little
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fuzzy on some of the details. What I do know is that on average the
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Albertans are quite unhappy with their current position in Canada and
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the sentiment has been getting worse over the years.
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Cheers,
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-James Rogers
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jamesr@best.com
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