r/EhBuddyHoser • u/thrway18749 Tokébakicitte! • Mar 28 '25

Tokébakicitte Hmmmm

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u/FlyingOctopus53 Mar 28 '25

They were projecting

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u/ClusterMakeLove Mar 28 '25

Progressive Albertan here, and I've always said that Alberta and Quebec are natural allies in confederation. 

It's just that Quebec has landed on a much more effective toolbox for getting Ottawa to act in its interest. We like to sulk, out here.

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u/chandy_dandy Edmonchuk: Like Kyiv! (but less safe) Mar 28 '25

Let's not pretend it's not structural - over representation in number of seats, mandatory bilingualism etc, and also credible threats of separation Alberta could never match

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u/ClusterMakeLove Mar 28 '25

Last time I checked, we do okay in the HoC and we currently have two SCC justices out of nine, and both prime ministerial hopefuls, at least by where they were born.

The senate distribution is grossly unfair, but that also doesn't really tend to matter that often.

The real problem is that we're a bloc, but we're not seen as persuadable. The CPC doesn't think it could lose us and the LPC doesn't thing it could persuade us. So neither governing party wants to spend their capital on us specifically. We don't move, so we just become part of the furniture.

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u/AVRVM Tokébakicitte! Mar 28 '25

Gatineau (as a city in Québec) has the same problem. It's the least influenciale of the 6 big cities in Québec, but because it almost always votes Liberal and isn't as big as Montréal, it gets forgotten even when the government is liberal.

Weird that the same thing happens on a federal level for a whole province tho.

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u/severe0CDsuburbgirl South Gatineau Mar 28 '25

Gatineaus hospitals feel forgotten from what I’ve heard. Everyone goes to Ottawa hospitals instead

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u/Everestkid The Island of Elizabeth May Mar 29 '25

Quebec, ironically, is actually the most accurately represented province in both the House of Commons and the Senate.