An American, I wasn’t brought up to understand the divide between Alberta and some of the more visible parts of Canadian culture, economy or politics. I’ve been puzzling learning more about Alberta, their ascendent conservatism extremism over the last 5 years and trying to understand the sudden change. This brief article made me realize the “Texas” psychosis goes back decades and has laid the groundwork and produced the same sort of wealthy, entitled, selfish brood in Alberta that the US failed to stop spreading.

Going to check out the book mentioned for a more full read but excellent excerpts and TLDR for the “WTF is up with Alberta?”.

Hope you Canadians go hard on them and stamp it out, they will ruin your country too if you don’t.