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To: Claude Cormier who wrote (4838)	5/1/2005 9:52:19 PM
From: johnlw	Read Replies (1) of 37570

Anybody from Alberta on this thread? Hi, my daughters are the 4th generation of our family on this particular piece of dirt. One set of grandparents homesteaded outside of Calgary, the others arrived in the province, rather territory at that time, at the turn of the century. I would like to know how is life in Alberta? Prosperous. Busy. Infrastructure is stretched to max in many areas. The affluence and activity of the Highway 2 corridor is spreading out. The rural lifestyle is under pressure from the oil and gas industry and from the money moving out from Calgary and Edmonton. With the recent years of drought and the BSE debacle the increased oil/gas activity is seen as a mixed blessing. As a result of all of this I am not sure if I will want to live here rurally in 10 years. For a young person starting out, wanting to "get ahead" financially I can't imagine a better place to live. What is the proportion of uionized workers? My perception is the construction end of the mega projects are predominately union as are the gov't services. I see Frank found 20% plus, less than 10% would have been my estimate. How libertarian is your conservative government? I used the Word thesaurus for libertarian and got a wide range of synonyms: tolerant, liberal, democratic, permissive, open minded. In my view it is a satisfactory level of all of the above. The more it stays in the background of my life the better. JW

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