This is false. Alberta is NOT the economic engine of Canada, that’s a huge misconception of a group of Canadians (mostly Albertans) [0]

[0] https://youtu.be/5lSJpqA8RU4?si=fxwKpUFFKO7gK63E

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AlexandrB an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Did you watch this video? About half way through he confirms that Alberta has the highest GDP/capita in Canada and is the largest (per capita) tax contributor. Ontario is obviously larger in absolute terms, but it has at least 4x the population.

	▲	throw0101c 42 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> About half way through he confirms that Alberta has the highest GDP/capita in Canada and is the largest (per capita) tax contributor. Nunavut and NWT have higher per capita numbers, but that's territory versus province: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_provinces_and... Yukon and SK are in the >90k range, both ~5k below AB.
	▲	cmrdporcupine an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		As with any time you deploy an average... (And I'd expect better on this forum of all places) Show me the distribution. Show me the median not just the mean. Show me the standard deviation. Otherwise ... abused. Yes, we all know oil is an extremely profitable (and environmentally destructive) commodity. That doesn't make the typical Albertans somehow responsible for holding up all of confederation. Just means oil is making some people very rich. For now. I'm from there and my family is in Alberta. I can tell you now that the oil industry ain't doing jack squat for them.

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cmrdporcupine 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You're right but you should cite something other than the CBC, since it will just be immediately dismissed by the biased as biased.

Alberta is very important economically. I'm from there. Ontario (I live there) and Quebec and BC are also massively important. And fanning the flames of disinformation and playing grievance politics to make Albertans feel discriminated against has become an extremely serious problem.

Wab Kinew was very eloquent on this topic yesterday.

	▲	jleyank an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I would think Ontario is the centre of Canada as it has the most people and the financial centre. Google's AI says 38% of GDP. And the problem Alberta faces is who wants to separate, what do they want to do afterwards and what ground do they actually own (vs. treaties that predate Alberta). When Alberta at least catches up to Quebec in practicing being independent (runs its own police, collects its own taxes, has its own pension system, maintains foreign services, ... They might decide the extra taxes to pay for such is less "fun". And they need a border to ship stuff through.