I'll tell you something -- the perspective you get out west is so different than what you get in eastern Canada. In Alberta, it seems like there is so much money pouring out of people's ears that they don't give a sh!t about how much Ottawa takes from them -- it's simply written into their cost of doing business.
And I say this as an American . . . There's nothing better in this world than a place where the incumbent candidate for provincial premier can go out and have too much to drink, make an unscheduled "campaign stop" at a homeless shelter, and end up berating the shelter's occupants for being unemployed and living in a shelter at a time when the province is facing a serious labor shortage --- and see his approval ratings go through the roof as a result.
LOL!
Believe it or not I’ve talked to people working on Bay Street – the heart of Canadian capitalism – who would die to protect our social welfare systems! These are businessmen. They should know better. I think people in the East actually think politicians are good people. They deify Trudeau. Most people out there voted Tory or Whig because grand-daddy voted for them. They wouldn’t even consider a third party.
They believe in the system the way it is and actually like it.
In the West we have a sense of betrayal, but out East they don’t get it.
I don’t read the Globe and Mail. I read the National Post – the only conservative national paper in Canada – our last hope.