David Staples: Albertans addicted to ‘crack cocaine’ economic policy, but there is a way out

It’s as easy as it is fair to blame Justin Trudeau’s reckless policies for our current economic woes. After all Trudeau has set out to hammer Alberta’s oil and gas industry and grab up as much of our wealth as possible to ladle out in his big city Liberal strongholds of Montreal and Toronto. Trudeau has evidently been all-in on the motto of Keith Davey, campaign manager for Pierre Trudeau, who summarized the Ontario/Quebec-centric Liberal strategy in the 1980 election as, “Screw the West. We’ll take the rest.” Read More