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Canada’s cowboy country gunning for Justin Trudeau in election fight
Alienation over clean energy risks becoming a full-blown separatist movement ahead of this month’s snap poll, writes Charlie Mitchell
Justin Trudeau stops in Ontario during his campaign tour. He has been heckled by protesters and was pelted with stones on Monday
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Charlie Mitchell, Airdrie, Alberta
Wednesday September 08 2021, 5.00pm, The Times
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Beyond the horse trailers, haystacks and doughnut stands at a busy rodeo in Alberta, prairies stretch for hundreds of miles. Here, in the land of big oil and small government, it is hard to avoid the simmering resentment of Canada’s embattled prime minister.
Justin Trudeau may be a global liberal icon but in Alberta, which feels like another world from Canada’s stuffy capital, Ottawa, farmers, oil workers and ranchers have had enough of him. “How about a scary one like ‘Justin Trudeau’,” quips the rodeo announcer while running through the names of the horses. “You can’t fix stupid, but you can sure vote it out.”
Alienation over clean energy risks becoming a full-blown separatist movement ahead of this month’s snap poll, writes Charlie Mitchell
Justin Trudeau stops in Ontario during his campaign tour. He has been heckled by protesters and was pelted with stones on Monday
CARLOS OSORIO/REUTERS
Charlie Mitchell, Airdrie, Alberta
Wednesday September 08 2021, 5.00pm, The Times
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Beyond the horse trailers, haystacks and doughnut stands at a busy rodeo in Alberta, prairies stretch for hundreds of miles. Here, in the land of big oil and small government, it is hard to avoid the simmering resentment of Canada’s embattled prime minister.
Justin Trudeau may be a global liberal icon but in Alberta, which feels like another world from Canada’s stuffy capital, Ottawa, farmers, oil workers and ranchers have had enough of him. “How about a scary one like ‘Justin Trudeau’,” quips the rodeo announcer while running through the names of the horses. “You can’t fix stupid, but you can sure vote it out.”
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