Many Canadians outside the prairie provinces have trouble understanding — or accepting — that Alberta’s oilsands are still enormously important to our economy. The $8.3 billion of new investment in the oilsands last year represented 4.5 per cent of all Canada’s business investment in 2020 and was four times the capital spending undertaken by the auto manufacturers whom eastern-Canadian politicians continue to lionize and subsidize.

Our biggest export. High-paying jobs. Tax revenue.

Rest of Canada: Let's shut down the wealth creator of Alberta and Saskatchewan to show how enlightened we are! And, oh ya, pay for our health care, Alberta and Saskatchewan.