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NATION OF PEOPLE | Why Does the West Keep Paying for the East?
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Canada may be one country, but Randy Royer argues it operates under two very different social contracts. In Eastern Canada, government support and dependency play a larger role. In the West, the tradition is built around self-reliance, private initiative and governments getting out of the way.
On this episode of A Nation of People, Natalie St. Hilaire and Randy Royer trace how those differences developed, from Quebec and Confederation to Alberta’s entrepreneurial culture and Indigenous communities in the West. They ask whether federal transfers and the “nanny state” have created dependency, weakened Canada’s finances and forced Western Canadians to pay for political choices made elsewhere.
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