Why I don't believe Alberta is bullied by extractive industries such as Big Oil
Over the years I have read many articles discussing how people believe the province of Alberta has a cycle of abuse with Big Oil . Until recently I agreed with this sentiment, that Alberta is the victim of an abusive relationship with extractive industries such as Big Oil. Since my anti-racism training lead me to a different understanding of Canada, and a more unbiased understanding of its history, I now have a very different perspective. Canada was created unilaterally by the passage in the British Parliament of the British North America Act 1867 to effectively be a corporate subsidiary of Britain, to be part of the British Empire, and to provide cheap resources to the empire (affirmative action for Whites and all that). It was never created to be a democracy, or to think independently. It retains pretty much all of the British systems which were unilaterally imposed on this homeland. The British Parliament passed many laws called the " British North America Act " between...