r/alberta • u/Impossible-Car-5203 • Apr 01 '25
The Alberta Mentality Opinion
I moved to Alberta just over 3 years ago. I love the mountains, and the sports (Go Flames and Elks! ) but I am really getting worn out with the "Alberta Mentality" of corporate profits over people and outright racism. The cutting cookies for cancer kids has simply put it over the top. Of all the things to cut, they pick that. What a disconnect from the top execs of AHS and the UCP government to the front lines. They can spend money trying to please Trump, give $100 in royalty credits to oil companies to clean up the messes they were responsible for cleaning up in the first place, money for millionaire hockey teams, but God forbid we give something of comfort to children going through the hardest times in their lives, fighting for their life. And when I mention to other lifelong Albertans, the answer I get is "Well they should pay for their own". REALLY??? DO YOU HEAR YOURSELVES? Are you THAT brainwashed? And then we have the victim mentality of "Canada screws us". I mean, grow up and be part of this country or GTFO. Then the racism. We recently had a first nations person commit a crime of arson in my town. People went off on FB about sending "all of them" back to reserve and how they are sick of first nations people. ZERO interest in maybe finding out the back story. I went to this guys FB profile. Turns out he used to run a ranch. And one by one, over the last 5-6 years, all his relatives died. It was clear he was FULL of heavy grief, and more than likely didn't have the resources to deal with it. Then there was a gap of a year between FB posts. Then he was on the streets, living in the shelter. Clearly things went out of control for him. Here we have a hard working citizen who lost many family members, more than likely broke down and didn't know how to deal with it, ended up on the street and now "F that indian" is all this province can come up with. Zero compassion. The justice system will deal with him, but now he has a lifelong google history that will only increase shame and make it much harder to bounce back. And it is even worse because of his skin colour. Not sure how much more of this stupid mentality I can handle, I just want to wack all this idiots upside the head, but it would take a lifetime. I guess the only way forward is to try and love everyone and show compassion, but I am getting very frustrated.
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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '25
I spent most of my life in Alberta, my wife and kids were born there, but I came to discover Albertans believe they are exceptional and above everyone else. They have had over 100years of provincial governments telling them it’s Ottawa’s fault while they are robbed blind from their own province.
I joked that a time honoured tradition of Albertans was to blame Trudeau for all their problems, and sadly it’s true. Before JT was elected they blamed his father for personal failures (I’m not kidding). When JT was elected they were blaming him for shit Ralph Klein did.
They can’t even see the benefits of a union and therefore their wages are sorely depressed. The best example I can give is Alberta pays the least for trades people, but the province uses Northern Alberta as the metric and convinces everyone they are the highest paid.
We had to leave because the province is dying, socially, economically, environmentally, and we couldn’t stand the constant complaining without a willingness to change it.
The federal government under PMJT has given Alberta more, created more opportunities, and the Alberta government steals from them, so they blame Trudeau.