Alberta will pay for playing the role of constitutional problem child
You’re wealthy. You’re successful. You’ve grown quite used to both. Your current generation was born on third base and assumed it hit a triple.
And while the province’s leadership might muse about the application of the law to, say, defend Albertans’ rights to gun ownership , the Premier made it clear upon introducing the legislation that what really concerns her is protecting the means of Alberta’s economic success. In short, this does not look like a province in the throes of economic disaster. Yes, it’s still susceptible to ups and downs, and still highly exposed to the fortunes of global energy markets. But the chosen political remedy – to throw the province’s legal and financial relationship with its federal government into uncertainty – is considerably out of step with the its economic realities.
And a common defence of the province’s tactics is, “Yeah, well, Quebec’s been doing it for years.” As if emulating the country’sQuebec’s per-capital gross domestic product in 2021 was 13 per cent below the rest of the country . Average weekly wages in Quebec are 13 per cent lower than those in Alberta. On a per-capita basis, Quebec’s provincial tax take is nearly double that of Alberta’s.
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