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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker
As for what can be done about Western alienation... nothing really needs to be done. The West will continue to become more and more influential as its population and number of seats increase. I think that's bad for Canada if Alberta and Saskatchewan remain so right wing. We'll end up with a situation where Quebec and the Atlantic provinces are like Scotland - constantly voting for left-wing parties but always ruled by right-wing ones. And in a federation like Canada with more power invested in Ottawa, that's even more destructive.
I don't think Canada in its current form will last more than a few centuries longer. It'll become a looser federation like the European Union, or nothing at all.
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It depends how the rest of the world plays out in the next century.
If we looked at a century ago in 1919, the British Empire was still kicking and spanned a fair chunk of the globe. Today, they rule a few islands.
If the West looks to be swamped by those with different views (Communist China), we may just find that we like each other more than we think we do at this point in time. The Soviet Union was a catalyst for maintaining the post-WW2 order.