[Alberta's Child]

What I find so interesting about Canada is that many parts of it are more "American" than most "blue" states here in the U.S.

One of the reasons for this is that despite Trudeau's attempts to "socialize" Canada, I think he failed miserably in one very important respect: Canada to this day isn't even really a country at all. It's a loose confederation of different provinces and even sub-regions of provinces that functions the way the U.S. probably would have developed if the Southern states had won the Civil War.

When I lived in western Canada I didn't even think of myself as a Canadian -- I was an Albertan (hence my screen name).

[Alberta's Child]

It's also worth noting that one of the most important (and ironic) aspects of the North American Free Trade Agreement -- and one that doesn't get a lot of attention -- is that it has basically undone a lot of what Trudeau was trying to accomplish.

For example . . . that stupid National Energy Program couldn't be implemented in Canada today under the terms of NAFTA.

[Bulwyf]

Ya, I view myself as an Albertan too, and quite a few albertans think we’d be better off without ontario and quebec stealing our cash.