Alberta’s Surprising Debt to Quebechttps://pjmedia.com/david-solway-2/2025/08/21/albertas-surprising-debt-to-quebec-n4942908There is considerable friction, if not outright hostility, between Alberta and Quebec, flowing mainly from the prairie province to the perpetual Gallic parvenu. They are two resource-producing economies: electric power in Quebec and hydrocarbon energy in Alberta. The difference is that Quebec profits freely from sales to the Northeast American market, whereas Alberta is hamstrung by pro-Green legislation emanating from Ottawa against gas and oil extraction and delivery.
A second difference is that Quebec, falsely designated a “have-not” province, profits to the tune of $13.6 billion annually from equalization transfers disbursed by the Federal government from provincial coffers. Quebec’s fiscal capacity is claimed to be lower than average, an assessment that seems drastically excessive. Of course, Alberta, a “have” jurisdiction, pays almost the total amount while receiving far less in return from the central government. “Alberta continues to pay the freight for confederation through equalization and in return Liberal politicians score votes in Eastern Canada by talking down the only part of the country that really still works,” writes the Western Standard. This is a major cause, one of many, increasingly agitating secessionist fervor in Wild Rose Country.
As the Fraser Institute reports, “from 2007 to 2022 (the latest period of available data), Albertans contributed $244.6 billion more in taxes and other payments to the federal government than they received in federal spending—more than five times as much as British Columbians or Ontarians.” Why a wealthy, if under-accounted, province like Quebec should benefit from a parasitic relationship with Alberta may seem unclear—except that the Federal government spuriously entitles a cranky and fractious Quebec for the unadmitted but obvious purpose of keeping it in Canada.
Remember that 2 Senators per state US Constitutional provision that Progs hate? Here's how W'pedia describes the seats assignment in Canada's Senate:
The principle underlying the Senate's composition is equality amongst Canada's geographic regions (called Divisions in the Constitution): 24 for Ontario, 24 for Quebec, 24 for the Maritimes (10 for Nova Scotia, 10 for New Brunswick, and four for Prince Edward Island), and 24 for the Western provinces (six each for Manitoba, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Alberta).
Quebec having 4X the Senate members as Alberta makes it easier for Quebec to suppress Alberta's oil & gas industry while milking a fraudulent subsidy from Alberta. This is an example of the oppression and exploitation the USC designed the Senate to hinder.
I may add stories in this thread later today instead of overloading the Chatbox.
