I too am from Alberta..Calgary.
Amazing how we all turn into a bunch when the Shit hits the fan..huh!?
Quebec, with 25% of the people gets over 50% of the equalization payments here in Canada...AND...those payment where calculated in such a way not to included the revenue generated by hydro Quebec which generated about $14 billion a year...
Everyone benefited from the good jobs and revenue Oil and Gas created...Then sources beyond our borders sabotaged us from within...so that fellow Canadians now point fingers at one another...All while the US, being unified jumps to the top of the heap..producing more Oil and Gas than any other country....All while Leonardo DiCaprio and Jane Fonda circle the Oil sands in helicopters here in Alberta and point fingers...Why are they not protesting their own Oil Sands in California, their backyard, which have been proven to be far less clean?
...and my white guy comment was merely to emphasize that some of us do understand these inequalities and bias'
Cheers