Project Alberta

A different history, different culture, different ethics and a different vision for our future.

I’ve been going on with that for some time now with many posts at many sites pointing out why Western Canadian Nations must go their way, forge their own path, and end their colonial status with Canada. Of course I’ve also gotten very little positive feedback from “Canadians” (Ont/Que).

Part of that problem is that very few Canadians know anything at all about Canadian history. Few know that Canada was a nation, a colony of Britain, which was comprised of two provinces Upper and Lower Canada which are known today as Ontario and Quebec.

Confederation was an agreement to have other Nations, other colonies of Britain, join Canada. Those colonies are the Eastern Provinces of today’s Canada and the special status they hold in Confederation reflects that.

So very different is the history of Western Provinces. They were created as Colonies of Canada and the transfer of their wealth to the East as well as the lack of special status and equal representation in Confederation reflects that.

Eastern Canadians like to think that the colonies of Canada have the same history as Canada, yet they intuitively know that the history of Britain is not their history. Getting them to see that we in the West have our own history, our own and very different vision is difficult. Eastern Canadians refuse to look at even their history, or geography (central Canada is in the East) or the unequal treatment of the provinces. Getting them to see the West as anything but a Colony of Canada is difficult.

And yet there is hope. Here is an article, published in a Montreal paper no less, that attempts to explain why other Provinces, other Nations in Canada are different.

http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/Wes ... story.html

It is a soft shoe approach and plays on many misconceptions but it is trying to point out that our history is not their history, that their vision is not our vision.

It is a start and we need that.