This poll finds a hypothetical “Western Canada Party” leading or tied for the lead in vote intention in each of the four western provinces,’ the report says<\/p>\n
The West Wants In!’ Reform Party Leader Preston Manning, right, and Stephen Harper in 1988.Postmedia\/File<\/p>\n
Tyler Dawson
\nFebruary 5, 2019
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\nEDMONTON \u2014 While Alberta is unlikely to separate anytime soon, frustration in western Canada suggests there\u2019s the potential for the rise of a regionally specific political party to represent the West in Ottawa.<\/p>\n
New polling from the Angus Reid Institute shows that 68 per cent of Canadians countrywide think Alberta separating \u201cwould never happen,\u201d so the federation is unlikely to break up any time soon. But the same polling, part of a series on western identity, concludes that should a regional party spring into existence, it would upend the political power balance in the four western provinces.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis poll finds a hypothetical \u2018Western Canada Party\u2019 leading or tied for the lead in vote intention in each of the four western provinces,\u201d the report says.<\/p>\n
That is wholly theoretical. Nobody has yet stepped forward to create an explicitly western political party. But this theoretical party could grow out of a region that\u2019s dissatisfied with Ottawa\u2019s treatment of it. Seventy-three per cent of those polled in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia believe resentment against the federal government is growing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat even the idea or concept of such a party captures the imagination of more than one-in-three Western Canadians is highly significant,\u201d says Shachi Kurl, executive director of the Angus Reid Institute. \u201cIt shows the \u2018national\u2019 parties are not succeeding in reflecting or representing the West as well as they might hope to be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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