Where Do Your Values and Future Belong?
It is so easy for those in Canada today to use the language of “Left-Wing” or “Right-Wing” to describe those on the other edge of the political spectrum. This social categorization occurs for a number of reasons.
To keep it simple, these labels serve as symbols that help us identify political groups quickly (Vegetti, F., & Širinić, 2019). We do this so we save time and energy about making decisions (Weinland, “The Benefits of Social Categorization,” 2023). The trouble with the categories is these two groups often share the same goals when it comes to Alberta Independence.
Indeed, there may be a group of people that focus on social issues, or another group that focuses on business and finance, but both can be Pro-Albertan. Then there are those who become afraid of Alberta Independence because they align themselves with the values of the Justin Trudeau (now Mark Carney) era. These people confuse Pro-Ottawa values with the “Canadian” values; but, it is the “Traditional Canadian” values to which most Albertans identify.
What’s the difference?
The Canadian values that Alberta recognizes came about just before the end of the 1960s. These included a welfare state that included unemployment, hospital, and medical insurance with a pension plan (Telford, 2014). The Pro-Ottawa (aka “new Canadian”) is a climate fighter, negligent with the country’s budget, even has less regard for the military defense, wants open borders, regardless if the country can employ these newcomers. These values of pro-Ottawa have been forced upon the Albertan (aka “Traditional Canadian”). These people see themselves as morally superior, and override the values and morals (the “right” versus “wrong”) of the Albertan people.
Indeed, there is a “New Canada” and an “Old Canada”. The “New Canada” really takes its values and morals from the global worldview of the Trudeau government. Pro-Ottawa see that whatever values and morals one region of the world has, the other regions of the world must adopt. For this reason, the “Old Canada” we long for has been “left behind”.
The pro-Albertan realizes that those values are “home grown” and are needed to ensure the survival and prosperous future of our loved ones, and our neighbors throughout the world. The pro-Albertan recognizes this moral obligation and “owns it” as their duty to themselves; and for a large portion others, it is their obligation to God.
In Alberta, there is a place for those who think socially, and for those who think economically. When they act for the benefit of a strong future, they are pro-Albertan. When they protect the “old Canadiana” they are pro-Albertan. When you hear someone say, “you are a traitor to Canada,” they are pro-Ottawa.
The winds may blow, the rain may flood, but the home of Alberta will stand because it is built upon the rock of who they are; and it is from this very rock they will determine whom they will become.
Alberta, strong and free.
Sources:
- Vegetti, F., & Širinić, D. (2019). Left–Right Categorization and Perceptions of Party Ideologies. Political Behavior, 41(1), 257–280. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48688425
- Weinland, K. (2023). 5.2 Social Categorization, Stereotyping, and Discrimination. Intercultural Communication. Retrieved from https://open.library.okstate.edu/interculturalcommunication/chapter/beliefs-values-and-cultural-universals/
- Telford, H. (2014). Rules of the Game: An Introduction to Canadian Politics. Pearson Canada.
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