# Alberta, Natural Resources, and the Rest of Canada **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 3, 2025, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alberta-natural-resources-and-the-rest-of-canada/1017872 "2025-05-03T00:31:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 123
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alberta-natural-resources-and-the-rest-of-canada/1017872/123 "2025-05-26T14:55:02Z")
> [@Canada Election 2019](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-election-2019/839798/560): > > And yet Western alienation becomes a non-issue whenever the Tories take Parliament hill. That’s just pure sour grapes, not an independence movement. Wexiters cry bloody murder up until the day the Conservatives win and get to set the National agenda. That’s why it’s a perennial farce. There no political aspirations beyond run-of-the-mill right wing reactionary politics. My previous comments seem accurate to this day. The source of today’s Alberta/Saks separatism seems to be pure right-wing grievance. I’m someone who is VERY UNSYMPATHETIC to right-wing grievances; I feel contempt to appeals to it. I guess this is a personal thing, that has only grown more stronger due to the escalating political brinkmanship right-wingers have engaged in. I hate the world that right-wingers crave. I just hate it all. Threatening to destroy Canada, because they can’t handle the democratic results of the recent election, is just another thing to add to the pile of my personal grievances I have for right-wing grievance mongerers. No matter how hard I try, I cannot drum up sympathy to their destructive and often wild world view. When you get lefties arguing separation from the left, perhaps there will be intellectual substance to the arguments instead of bullshit grievances. Perhaps, but judging from my lifelong arguments with Quebec sovereignists I have doubts. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alberta-natural-resources-and-the-rest-of-canada/1017872)._