Colby Cosh: The first step, Western brethren, is to Wexit in your heart

Before the evening of the federal election, you began to see an odd fact being observed: as the polls appeared to be shaping up, it looked as though the best practical outcome for Alberta, Saskatchewan and the allied resource-producing areas of Confederation might be an outright Liberal majority.

The Liberals have been left in a fairly strong position to govern, by the standards of minorities. All it will take is intelligent strategic management on the part of the Prime Minister’s Office, he said, typing what is surely the most irony-heavy “All” in the history of the English language. It seems clear that the Conservative result, generating a caucus that looks to be 36 seats smaller than the Liberals’ with more overall votes, stands as a condemnation of Conservative electoral strategy.

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When the former Premier of Alberta put moratoriums on oil production & shipping, the price shot up. How does increasing flow and continuing to sell at basement bargain prices help Alberta? Before you all leave, you might want to ask jkenney why that is?

We fail? But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail. Macbeth

Put some western voices on CBC At Issue panel for starters. Enough of the Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal bubble financed by the rest of the country.

The first step is to make sure there will be no more cruise ships docking at the Vancouver harbor, no more than half a million cars per day driving on the 40, and no more transfer payments to separatists Quebec.

Grow up and stop saying “Western”. In BC, Alberta is back east and we want nothing to do with those assholes.

I have to say I don’t see being heartfelt about this issue being a problem. Lots of surprises to come

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