I’ve been nervous about this number for a while, and this article in the Globe and Mail confirms that I should be.

It seems like just last year… wait, it was just last year, that I moved back to Alberta from the socialist commune of British Columbia.  I despised the province because I believe that the most capable labour groups are more concerned with a 37.5 hour workweek than they are with building a thriving economy.  The Alberta way is to give a little blood and get a lot of oil.

Now, I find that those same people who abandoned their provinces and rushed to Alberta to take part in one of the world’s hottest economies are willing to trade the gov’t that made it happen for one that could stifle it.  Interesting…

The sky isn’t falling.  It’s not doom and gloom (yet.)  But it does make me wonder.  Why vote in the same ideologies that made you leave the place you came from?  You don’t meet many Soviet defectors who would vote Marxist-Leninist, even if it did mean lower rent.