Re: Why should Alberta stay?Nothing is going to change in regards to the East-West problems in Canada.There are too many people in the West who don't realize their rights, culture and freedoms have been and are eroded past the point of a constitutional parliamentary democracy. The conclusion to this is that Alberta will not separate and will not get what it needs and demands from Canada. Independence movements start when people are stressed due to poverty, curtailments of freedoms and religions and a sense of future insecurity. Only the forward thinkers understand that the West is already there. We can't afford housing, food, transportation, and decent medicine. Instead we have become serfs to a central system that controls more and more functions..At some point we will find ourselves in a China-style social credit system and not know how we even got there. Unless Moe and Smith decide to emphasize the dangers and the rewards of either separation — or a new deal — nothing will change. We've had 108 years at least since it was decided that the west would be the revenue base for the east.We all know the excesses foisted on us by Ottawa. Wheat boards, dairy boards, train rates, tax redistribution and everything else that stifles growth and wealth creation, with no power to change. The west is in fact owned by both the Laurentian elites and the US elites. Don't take my word for it! Where are stocks in Alberta's oil companies traded? Who owns the stocks?Ms. Smith and Mr. Moe, I'm calling on you to realize the peril now. In a year, it will be too late as Carney floods Alberta with new immigrants just as the Democrats in the US flooded that country with illegals. I'm not suggesting the only road is independence, but I am suggesting making extreme haste in fixing this mess one way or another.I live in BC, my stake in the game is that if Alberta gets fixed, we do too.Burns MatkinSunshine Coast, B.C.
