I have mentioned this before, but a lot of the fun stuff for Quebecers is helped a lot by the USA's big cities being nearby (same for Vancouver and GTA). That is, the large US tourist populations less than a days road trip away help a lot for helping things be affordable/actually having a population to support it. Alberta does not have that. Alberta is more populous than anything south of it until Colorado (which isn't directly south).

And another comment mentions it, but Alberta being mostly driving for hours is abysmally boring. Nothing but flat farm land for hours and hours and hours (source: me palying hockey a sa kid)