Happy Alberta Day, Canada! Get Used to It!
Submitted on July 1, 2011
By David J. Climenhaga - July 1, 2011
...[W]hat is not yet widely understood in the rest of Canada is the extent to which the Conservative brain-trust of neo-Cons...right-wing academics, corporate "think tankers" and their ilk have been influenced by the petroleum-driven political culture of [Alberta]. This is a place with a monochromatic mainstream media, worshipful attitude toward American-style ideological extremism and reflexive anti-labour attitudes and practices that have been reflected literally for generations in Alberta's legislation.
