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Went to stupid Tuesday at Safeway this morning only to discover they have adopted self checkouts. I watched a lady stand there and try to buy her groceries for 20 minutes and load her bags that were sitting on the floor because there isn’t enough room to put them AND the system was glitchy even with the staff’s help. I wrote Safeway this morning to tell they I would be shopping at No Frills from now on because they are WAY cheaper and I expect bargain basement service from them for it. I have to bring bags or pay for them, load my own cart, scan my own groceries, only get the 10% off Tuesday bonus if I have a Scene card (which I don’t) so what’s the advantage of shopping at the most expensive store in town? They are getting less and less name brand and you have to contend with the crappy “Compliments” brand, it’s just garbage so FAREWELL Safeway after 45 years.
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I spent a lot of time reading the Canada West Foundation’s new report on Alberta separation, and I think Albertans should read it too.
Not because I agree with where it ultimately lands. I don’t.
But because something interesting happens when you work through the report carefully: parts of it make a remarkably strong case for why Alberta is having this conversation in the first place.
Decades of attempted reform. The same constitutional frustrations resurfacing again and again. Alberta’s enormous fiscal contribution to Canada. Legitimate questions about debt, assets, trade, pensions, investment, and what a transition could look like.
Those questions deserve serious answers. But identifying things that would need to be negotiated is very different from proving they cannot be negotiated.
And there’s one question I think deserves just as much scrutiny as every risk associated with leaving:
What happens if Alberta stays?
Because staying is a choice too, and it comes with its own assumptions, ...
