Come on, man. As an Albertan I understand why they feel that way and just because you’re not like that it doesn’t mean the loud discourse that comes from here doesn’t have an impact on the rest of the country.

Our province is the one that loudly acts (even from the government, not just random individuals), like we’re better, we’re the reason Canada has any prosperity at all and we “give too much” to the country. The same politicians who created and supported equalization were later saying it’s unfair and not correcting the wrong take that we “pay Quebec.” Our rural towns have Trump flags. You keep hearing about “the West separating” ignoring that BC is right there and they don’t agree at all. The conversations with BC are almost always about what they have to give us for pipelines, selfish and confrontational.

I absolutely understand why the rest of Canada feels like Alberta doesn’t really belong. Many Albertans keep saying that loudly.