HIST 3580 Lecture : March 13 - Lecture.docx
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Western alienation: roots go back to late 1800s, belief that western canada was being exploited economically by central canada and that it was sanctioned by the federal government, this belief of exploitation, based on national policies like the tariff, based on high railroad rates, high interest rates, all of which were said to line the pockets of central canadian railroads and banks and manufacturers at the expense of western farmers, the west saw itself as a region subordinate to central canada and little influence in ottawa to do anything about it, western alienation did die down by 1940s due to renewed economic prosperity in the region, prosperity was based on the west"s high raw material demand, alberta became well off after oil reserves were discovered there, this prosperity led to an increase of government revenues and higher standard of living.
