... receive less than half the amount of direct payments compared to AB producers.
And part of the answer lies in the Alberta laws that empower the oil industry to screw over the province's farmers in so many ways.

Another interesting question:
Why are Alberta farmers the most heavily subsidized in Canada? Roughly 1/3 of the average $6 billion in annual federal direct payments to Cdn farmers go to Alberta farmers alone.
Alberta only has the 2nd highest farm population after Ontario, but Ontario farmers...

I say! Who let all these peasants in heah?!
I cannot be expected to sit among the riff raff!
Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?
Away with them!

Depressing when you think about the fact that, historically, Saskatchewan was once the heartland of Canadian socialism.

As long as there are labour laws that prevent children from being exploited for cheap labour, children are not a profitable commodity. So they don't matter.
Guns are a profitable commodity. So they matter more.
This is capitalism.

Moot point, really.
They already have a de facto majority, as long as the Not Democratic Party and Elizabeth May are invertebrates.

Winning is the only thing that matters to Liberals.
That realization is why I left the party over a decade ago.
They can excuse any corruption, abandon any principle, and follow any leader... as long as that leader wins.

Partisanship is the cancer of democracy.

But it's a sports mentality. "Support your team no matter what."
And of course Canadian media narrate politics like a sports game.

Most of the party aparatchiks today will defend the removal of 'socialism' from all the party's constitution etc. I don't believe I've ever heard Charlie speak out for bring it back.

He's a hyper partisan attack dog. The NDP's answer to Poilievre, but more intelligent.

Given a choice between party and principle, he will choose party. Case in point. He loves to posture like the great defender of Indigenous rights. But when it's a provincial NDP gvt doing the rights violations, deploying militarized RCMP against unarmed land defenders, suddenly Charlie's mute.

Angus is one of that type of political grifter that presents a facade of being an anti establishment rebel while actually being a partisan establishment aparatchik.