Project Alberta

Most Canadians are not getting good representation or value in our current federal political system, particularly AB. Even those who think they benefit from the current system, mainly from Ont, Que and the Eastern Maritime provinces (and those with extra racial and cultural rights) are doing so at the expense of their current and future potential.

Just as it was morally corrupting to have wealth based on the labour of slaves and for nations to feed off colonies so is it wrong that Canada (Ont/Que) continues to feeds off the efforts and resources of the "regions" even if they "created" those regions. Of course many here, at this site that, are likely to agree with that but getting most Canadians to see the error of their ways will be difficult.

Although it is difficult to get colonizers to see a better future that does not mean that future cannot be forced upon them. History shows us that is the more normal process and to that end we need a Western or Provincial party like the Que Bloc.

Which might lead one to the existing Western Bloc Party. I have in the past had much interest in the WCC but every exchange with them or anyone promoting them has left me feeling uncomfortable, such that I never joined them. They seemed to be old and aging with many socialist, conservative and even dictatorial views IMO typical of political movements within religious groups.

Of course most people are religious so I should not fear such movements, or religious people supporting such politics. Maybe they should be embraced as a conduit to a group of mass support? Maybe I should give them another chance but am not comfortable forcing religious morals on the masses.

Besides a Western Party is likely not be possible at this time. As I write this I am in Manitoba. This is a province where petty, short term, visionless, corrupt politics is dominating and has been for some time. The culture here is very depressing and explains why a Maritime province in the centre of the wealthiest continent continues to be poor and is dragged into the future as flotsam is dragged by the hydraulic current behind a barge.

Even as the concern for Arctic sovereignty increases nationally and as the world lays claim to our NWP as an international water way Manitoba still sits on and keeps down a major Canadian port. Churchill is our only Arctic Port serviced by a railway and connected to the North American Electrical grid and fundamental to our Arctic claims and the West’s access to the world via the Atlantic.

Closer to Europe than Montreal, only a couple hundred kilometers away from an all weather road, the ocean port of Churchill, and most of Manitoba resources are wasted and plans for growth continually blocked by fear. Fear of failure, fear of success.

It is that fear of success that prevents the current Manitoba from being part of any Western independence movement. Making the ideal of an alignment of Western provinces including MB is just a pipe dream at least in the near future.
Alberta will have to go it alone or with Sask and BC.

But I do not see BC as the natural ally that circumstances would suggest. Unlike Sask they have not been prompted by Alberta's success to change their politics and sight their sights on greater things.

BC not only has goofy and wasteful politics they have a very very different history and vision when compared to all other provinces. Blessed with the greatest wealth of all Canadian provinces they have been happy to waste the wealth on short term gains and whatever flavor of the day politics takes their fancy. The carbon tax is just the latest stupidity in a long history of such wastefulness which most BC residents agree with (and have every right to do so of course).

It may be in the interest of BC to grow up and leave the mother country and someday they will but they are not likely to make the best move. Just as they failed to make the best move in the 1800's by joining Canada I suspect they will once again let short term looney politics hamper a potentially great future. (looney because I still do not understand it, not because it actually is for those supporting its objectives)

Saskatchewan is a province I have never lived in but have much respect for. Decades ago it was mired in debt and taxes. I saw an even poorer reflection of Manitoba in Saskatchewan and was not impressed. The politics seemed very similar, socialist and backward and even more agrarian in nature than Manitoba.

But history has shown that rather than looking to Manitoba as a province to learn from Sask looked West and saw a better way. Today they are on the road to prosperity and if anything they are the brother that Manitoba should be looking to, certainly not the other-way around. I could see Sask growing much faster than MB or BC.

But not faster than AB. We in Alberta have to grow up fast because we have few resources and the big one is being exploited now. We have to act now or be trampled under foot by Eastern and Southern interests.

So practically we need an Alberta First Party.

Now which party fits that description? Which party will represent Alberta in Ottawa as the Bloc represents Que? Which would if given the chance?