Alberta-ROC Relations
October 24, 2005 · By Tom Cerber
Alberta-Canada Now re-posts a letter from today’s Calgary Herald that well sums up what’s at stake in the conflict between Alberta and ROC over oil revenues.
I don’t know whether ABN does so intentionally, but ABN illuminates also why this conflict goes to the root of the constitutional problems underlying Alberta indignation:
A Tory government in Ottawa could not be seen to bestow special favours on Alberta, because that would rip our country apart beyond recognition.
No kidding. Who’d recognize a Canada that reversed the flow of special favors? (I prefer the Latinized spelling of “favor”).
[...] The 1st story is all about all the conspicuous consumption going on in Calgary, all at the expense, implicitly told, of all you hard working Torontonians. See here for some balance. [...]
Haven’t we already lived through that scenario between 1984-1993? Even if we were to send all Libranos to Ottawa tomorrow, what precisely would change the demographic reality in the quasi-federation?
Do us a favour, will ya Tom? Spell properly in the Queen’s English!
The Queen’s English is a bastardized French. When Cicero uses -our in his endings, then so shall I. Until then. vale.