Western Standard - August 29, 2026


Why You Feel Alienated ｜ Canadian Constitution


Episode Stats


Length

1 minute

Words per minute

146.68

Word count

188

Sentence count

11


Transcript

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00:00:00.000 What I'm gathering from what you're saying is that because there's something structurally set up in our constitution that requires us to be governed a certain way, like electoral districts, et cetera, even when we have a conservative government that might campaign on equality, they can't govern that way.
00:00:20.900 It won't work for them.
00:00:22.100 That's correct.
00:00:22.500 Okay, so that's one of the, I think, areas where people really start to feel alienated.
00:00:30.420 Even when we get what we want, we don't get what we want because it's structurally impossible, is what you're saying.
00:00:36.900 Yeah.
00:00:38.020 Stephen Harper, for example, he famously wanted to have a single financial control.
00:00:48.940 And that, of course, was going to be the OSC in Ontario.
00:00:51.740 and so he's going to move all financial stuff out of Calgary and move it to Ontario.
00:00:56.620 And that was a progressive, that was a conservative government.
00:00:59.880 And the courts said that finance was a provincial sovereign right,
00:01:07.680 and so he didn't do it, but that expresses that even in the Conservative Party,
00:01:12.620 they really have to play to Ontario and Quebec in order to get elected again.