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Article: Alberta first.
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- Alberta Report
- Article date:
- February 19, 2001
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Six prominent citizens deliver a manifesto calling for provincial autonomy
Albertans are not the wealthiest Canadians, but they are the biggest contributors to the cost of confederation. According to Alberta Treasury estimates, every man, woman and child paid a net fee of $2,905 for the privilege of being Canadian in 2000. For a family of four, that amounts to $11,620. The federal government has taken almost $200 billion out of Alberta in the last 30 years. Not that the Liberals are grateful-- Prime Minister Chretien says the province needs "tough love." Well, push has come to shove, and a group of six prominent citizens has declared that Alberta is no longer ...