“Albertans have been working for Ottawa for too long. It’s time for Ottawa to start working for us — they must stop taking us for granted,” Kenney said.
Kenney said he wants to acknowledge that some Western Canadians no longer feel at home in their own country, and suggested “Laurentian elites” have both benefited from Alberta’s wealth and abandoned the province in its time of need.
“How perverse is it to blame the victim in a sense when we have been doing so much to share our wealth with the rest of the country?” he asked.