Canada

You're blanketing the thoughts of an entire province's population with those of a handful of people. There's more than plenty people here that care about work issues elsewhere, it's why a lot of people came here to begin with. My own family came out this way from Newfoundland because of a lack of job opportunities there at the time, and I know of others from Atlantic Canada, namely New Brunswick, who came this way because of a scarce job market out that way.

The very reason why there's this to and fro negativity between Albertans and the rest of Canada is because the government doesn't push for new job opportunities in Alberta that aren't related to O&G. What are the feds doing for canola farmers? It is so easy to go out there and support our canola farmers through tariffs on olive oil and other cooking oils, as well as marketing campaigns to Canadian consumers, yet that doesn't happen. How about supporting struggling sugar beet farmers, who are almost all based in Alberta and the only source of domestic sugar in Canada? It isn't hard to develop frameworks for a domestic sugar market and develop a Domestic Sugar Policy like every other developed country, and yet we continue to screw over the people who literally feed us because it's "not politically worthwhile".

What about Danielle Smith teasing hydrogen vehicle manufacturing in Alberta? At no point did the feds say "yes, we support more jobs in Alberta, let's get the ball rolling and work together on this", leaving Smith backed into a corner of actually needing to do something. At no point have they talked about diversifying the economy in Alberta to help the province out of it's woes, and at no point have they mentioned any programs to assist oil workers like those in my family who lost their jobs in finding new work, especially after they were left behind by the province like they were despite doing everything expected of them.

It is painfully easy to fall for someone who tells you how exceptional you are as they make your life worse when the opposite side hasn't given you the support that you need. It's also painfully easy to have disdain for the rest of the country as a result of that, but not everybody falls down that path.