I've posted about this before, but I've been out with coworkers for a beer before and had the exact conversation on the "rest of Canada not caring" point about O&G jobs in Alberta. I'm originally from Ontario so I could chime in on that perspective for them.

The conversation was mostly geared towards them thinking the Albertan economy is "floating" the rest of Canada. When I brought up the size of Toronto and Montreal and the industries just in those two cities they brushed it off. So I took a different tactic, I started asking them if they cared about manufacturing jobs in Quebec, or fishery jobs in the maritimes or automotive jobs in Ontario. Unsurprisingly they said they didn't know / care and that those jobs weren't as numerous / important as O&G.

I ended it with saying, people care about Alberta as much as you care about Ontario, Quebec, BC, the Maritimes which is essentially zilch. I'm not sure if I got through to them but one guy actually said "somehow this seems worse". I just said "really Alberta doesn't register in most Canadians radars unless negatively".

They also genuinely couldn't understand why folks out east or in BC don't want pipelines or further O&G investment in their provinces.

[–] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

That's why this whole movement is fucked. The people who back this just think they're keeping Canada afloat.

So what if they are? That's called "sharing" and Canada is a vast country. The benefits of being Canadian far outweigh the costs to the Province of Alberta.

If Alberta was a country, it would be like Nigeria. I'm pretty sure even the most die hard maple MAGAt would ratjer be in present day Alberta than Nigeria.

Their bigotry is blinding them to the fact that they would actually become a minority group they despise.

[–] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

What is an "Albertan"? Cars have existed longer than Alberta has. We're all immigrants.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 17 hours ago

We're all immigrants.

Most of us anyway.