200 truckers make trip from Alberta across country gathering more truckers and communities support along the way. The convoy set up at Parliament Hill.
Curious such a big story has no airtime on CBC News Network. The "Center of the Universe" ignores us again (still). I have complained about CBC in C-D before and now I have a current example of their bias. It really is maddening.
I'm an Albertan. The convoy to Ottawa is an act of desperation. We aren't heard. We are landlocked.
Oil companies are selling up and leaving. There are 180,000 people in oil out of work.
Eighty (80) MILLION dollars are lost EVERY DAY and a
total of 6 billion since Federal Court ruled against the Trans Mountain Pipeline.
cana
Perhaps B.C. and Central Canadians would agree that we are unfairly treated after reading the following.
Before we even thought of oil, wheat was our prize-winning main export. Then in 1936 the feds stuck their nose in our business and formed the
Canadian Wheat Board as a mandatory producer marketing system for wheat and barley in
Alberta,
Saskatchewan,
Manitoba, (WTF?)
preventing farmers from selling their wheat for the price and distribution they themselves chose. It is illegal for farmers to sell their wheat to anyone but the CWB. Farmers are prevented
from controlling their own fruits of labor. It is suppression of the prairie provinces looking like very much like
oppression.
In our opinion the same thing happened with the formation of the
National Energy Board established in 1959 just a few years after the first gusher in Leduc, Alberta was discovered in 1947. The feds once again stuck their nose in our business and
regulate our growth.
BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan signed a
New West Partnership Trade Agreement (NWPTA)
in 2006, a comprehensive agreement to remove barriers to trade, investment and labour mobility between British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan. But now
BC refuses AB access to Canadian ports.
For those who tell Alberta to diversify our economy look at the following pie chart. Looks to me like we are already fairly well diversified.
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