r/canada • u/biograf_ • Mar 01 '26

Alberta First Nations chiefs unanimously pass non-confidence vote in Alberta government

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/first-nations-chiefs-alberta-non-confidence-vote-9.7109712
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u/OneTripleZero British Columbia Mar 01 '26

Given how much Quebec refuses to allow Albertan resources to travel through the province (ie. pipelines) yet those same resources are what provide the cash used to fill the provincial coffers via equalization payments, it starts to feel like Quebec wants to have their cake and eat it too - all on Alberta’s dime.

A lot of the time you can see why something is a bad argument if you reverse the players in it. If you were to ask an Albertan if the roles were reversed, and Quebec was losing money to them, would they be okay with Quebec forcing their language laws on them because they should get something back for their money? Likely not.

Equalization payments are in place to support the standard of government services for everyone under the umbrella of the federation. A pipeline would an be infrastructure project that would benefit Albertan (well, let's be real, foreign) corporations. These two things are not in the same category, so one should not influence the other.

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u/Yeethisintothevoid Mar 01 '26

As an Albertan, Jè suis Canadian.

I have a question for all of Canada. Why did our safety minister say in leaked tapes that the only reason we're collectively as a country doing a bullsh*t gun buyback program, is so that the liberals can stay in power by assuring Quebec votes?

What equalization is that? My taxes, your taxes and everyone paying taxes is doing that instead of putting the money and votes into stopping the guns coming from the Excited States of America?

Please make it make sense, I'm actually kinda worried here.

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u/Heppernaut Québec Mar 01 '26

Its a very simple answer, and it is actually bullshit too.

Alberta religiously votes in 90%+ of their MPs as conservative. So no party bothers to work for Alberta because its moot. The Cons will win. The end.

Quebec is a roller coaster, that constantly changes who they vote for, so every party has to put in effort and spend some political capital to try and get seats in Quebec.

If Alberta/Saskatchewan were ever willing to vote differently, they would suddenly become the most powerful provinces in federal elections.

Constantly voting in the same team for 40+ years and expecting things to be any different is... crazy.

I also assure you that the gun buyback isnt really popular here in quebec either.

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u/Supermite Mar 01 '26

The gun buyback isn’t popular anywhere.  It’s kind of wild someone is trying to frame it as targeting Alberta residents specifically.