Talk:Politics of Alberta

Equalization
"In fact, Alberta is the largest net contributor to the program, and the payments are made to poorer provinces to ensure that all provinces are able to provide similar levels of public services."

Above is a potentially controversial statement. It would be a good idea to have a source to substantiate it. More information specific to Alberta on the equalization program would also be nice, i.e. what is the magnitude of the Alberta's net contributions.

I agree, though it is true this year, and in the past couple. I've made a few other edits and directed to the appropriate wiki pages covering the topics of reference. I am looking for a reputable source on the history of equalization payments in Canada. IT should be noted that Alberta has not always been a have province, as was suggested by the above wording. The provinces 'have' status has, as I understand, come and gone with the oil booms, and I will add that (or the opposite, should that be true) to the article as soon as I can find the numbers. naturalnumber (talk) 16:46, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

This article contains many generalizations, weasel words and dated information, needs a complete rewrite. Article says that Ralph Klein made "many controversial statements" what does that mean? Controversial to who? The media, people in other provinces? What were the so called controversial statements? Albertans continued to elect him and the PC's so they couldn't have been that controversial. The PC's have since been re-elected under a different leader with over half the the popular vote since this article has been written. The information on the Social Credit Party is historically wrong, although it became a somewhat traditional conservative party under Manning it was not under Aberhart Ronwi (talk) 18:43, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

I agree with the above comment concerning the Social Credit under Aberhart and Manning. The following, I believe, should be inserted after the mention of the UFA being the longest-lived farmer protest govenment: The UFA was replaced by the world's first Social Credit government, which stressed reform of the banking and monetary system as a way to address the Depression. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.52.225.148 (talk) 20:41, 8 July 2012 (UTC)