Why Alberta Should Leave Canada

In any large country with diverse regions like Canada, it will be very hard for the national government to satisfy everyone all the time. Policies that help one region may hurt another, and there are never enough resources to meet the needs of all regions at once. Conflict between people of the various regions is, therefore, inevitable and to be expected.

Nevertheless, if a government sincerely desires to do its best for the whole country, the regions that benefit most from its policies will shift over time, so that each region will get its fair share at one time or another. Arguably, this is how Canada operated for its first hundred years.

Of course, since the prairie provinces were created, they have had grievances with federal policies. As a result, a number of political movements arose during the twentieth century to address those concerns. A good example is the Progressive Party of Canada, which dominated the prairies in the early 1920s.

Read the full article on the Alberta Reformer site.

Graphic from the cover of Dr. Michael Wagner's book No Other Option, designed by Jeff Rout.