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Alberta: problem child of Confederation

Like his claim, discredited by an inquiry he appointed, that massive sums of foreign money were financing and directing Canadian environmentalists, Jason Kenney’s anti-equalization campaign is flogging a dead horse, a futile and wasteful gesture with no positive outcome.

Alberta’s Fair Deal Panel recycled the suggestion for a provincial police service, to which the Jason Kenney government committed only to study further, which is a way of saying they will not act on the proposal.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY NELSON WISEMAN

January 31, 2022

TORONTO—Unlike the founding provinces of Confederation, Alberta was created by the federal government. Although Ottawa granted Alberta control of its natural resources in 1930, no other English Canadian province has whined as much about the federal system. Equalization is the provincial government...

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