Posted Sep 23, 2021, 8:54 AM
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Re: Western Alienation
Something that I wonder about a lot is where the Atlantic provinces fit into the "Western Alienated" worldview.
It's obvious in that type of discussion that when people in "The West" talk about "The East", they generally mean Ontario + Quebec.
But many of these same people will have a firm stance of "No ______ east (or west) of the Man/Ont border!"
There are various issues (not all of them) that could reasonably be framed as the two Laurentian provinces vs the ROC. But there's never "ROC alienation", it's always "The West" vs. "The East".
Do people of this mindset normally tend to:
A - view the Atlantic provinces as a part of the centre of power?
B - see us as distinct from Ont/Que, but want even less to do with us?
C - forget that there are other provinces east of Quebec?
D - other?
(this isn't some kind of offended "gotcha" thing, I'm legitimately curious whether anyone thinks these things through - they rarely seem to come up)
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