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#Albertans have met the enemy — and it is them https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/lets-drop-the-phoney-alberta-versus-canada-nonsense-the-province-has-met-the-enemy-and/article_94bd26a0-d22d-47e9-9fa8-a367efc784da.html “So it’s no surprise residents of my home province are cranky.

Their economy produces more GDP per worker than any other. The economic pie they bake is bigger than ever. But the average Albertan’s standard of living is lower than a decade ago.

It wasn’t Ottawa that laid them off, cut their pay, froze the minimum wage, drove up electricity and insurance costs, and put their health care at risk. It was the enemy within”