Day after day I read about how Brad Wall is accusing Mulcair of dividing the country, well Brad I hate to rain on your "poison pill" but Canada has seen this so called division all my life. Yes Brad that is a mere 67 years and counting.
If you really want to know what has divided Canada one only need to look inward. Provincial governments and local media have planted the "poison pill" in the minds of their respective constituents for decades. You play to your audience and forget the greater picture, "unity". Whether it is Quebec threatening to separate or BC feeling isolated and threatening to join the US, it is the Provincial "poison pill" that is creating an atmosphere of discontent amongst your voters toward another Province.
In schools today this is known as bullying... Verbal abuse of someone in an attempt to get your friends to join in and show their disdain for someone you declare unfit. Really, how the hell do you think our children learn to be bullies?
This attitude wears on your constituents and they form a negative opinion based on what you and the media brainwash them with. I know many people who have grown up in the east and, when the economy turned sour they moved west, after years of being battered by local politicians and media they have taken on the abusive tendencies of their new province. Conversely I have met those from the west who, for economic reasons, now reside in the east and have taken on similar attitudes of their new environment.
Yes folks if you really want to point a finger, point directly at your Premier and your Prime Minister.
Growing up I knew little about New Brunswick other than it's capital, similarly my knowledge of Saskatchewan, while slightly greater, was limited to it's capital and the fact that it was flat, had lots of wheat and was boring to drive across. Alberta was where we got our beef from while BC was the place for prime weed, although it was not my thing it was the image presented in the media.
Over the years I have traveled and lived in various Provinces of this great country known as Canada and what I have found is that all Provinces and their people are welcoming to strangers and make you feel at home..... yes even here in Ontario contrary to what you and I heard when we were young and easily influenced. But that is another story.
Nice rant,timely too.
ReplyDeleteFor decades it was popular for Provincial governments to run for re-election by campaigning against Ottawa.
The Alberta narrative decrying the loss of transfer payment dollars to the Federal government for redistribution on the basis of a formula must assume incorrectly that all of that revenue is theirs in the first place rather than a portion of it belonging to all Canadians through the Federal transfer system.
When Premiers Wall and Redford speak I hear the demands of the 1% and am moved to see them occupied.
Thank you annonymous - unfortunately it is the misinformed who defend and promote the idiological attitudes of a region rather than seeking the truth and speaking from a position of knowledge. In today's World it is so simple to search out and inform oneself of a specific subject before opening ones mouth and showing the Nation that they are an idiot.
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