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Originally Posted by trofirhen
Perhaps this is the wrong thread, but I felt like saying that is pleasing to see Calgary (and Vancouver and Edmonton, also) gaining more head offices, attracting more workers, both blue-collar and high-level professionals, to see major companies setting up in Calgary (and in Vancouver we just got the Microsoft Canada Centre for Excellence ... or a title like it, plus several natural gas companies from the USA) ....
That this all "tilts" Canada, and Canadian economic influence somewhat westward, though of course Toronto calls most of the shots.
There was a time when Toronto-Montreal were the axis of Canada, and everything but everything pivoted around them. Seeing new airlines coming to both YVR and YCC is just another sign of economic influence shifting west, and it's a refreshing trend.
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Anyone who knows any history of Western Canada will say it's about time. Ontario/Quebec have had way too much influence in Canadian politics for too long, and Toronto/Ottawa in particular have a long history of attempting with too much success to limit the influence of the Western regions in national politics. A large motivation for politically separating Alberta and Saskatchewan was because Ontario liberals were worried about the influence of a united West.
Now the cat is out of the bag and the train has left the station, there is no putting the genie back in the bottle of Western influence, and many out here will loudly exclaim - it's about damn time. The centre is shifting and this country will be the better for it.
