western alienation

noun

1. a feeling of resentment by some inhabitants of western Canada against perceived favouritism by the national government towards the eastern provinces

Example Sentences

A populist, the brother of the Ontario Premier Doug Ford, was once mayor of the country’s biggest city, Toronto, and for years, the Reform party rallied around a sense of Western alienation and socially conservative values.

From New York Times

For a native Albertan to address Western alienation is a challenge, said Michael Hawes, executive director of Fulbright Canada, “but she is a successful and purposeful politician, she has entered into negotiations that were difficult, she doesn’t suffer fools easily and she clearly has the ear of the prime minister.”

From Los Angeles Times

But western alienation — the sense that the rest of Canada has stacked the deck against the country’s west — is as old as the country itself.

From Washington Post

Voters there turned away from Mr Trudeau's party amid complaints that the region's interests are not represented in the capital, Ottawa, and growing talk of "western alienation" in Canada's oil-producing heartland.

From BBC

That fueled so-called western alienation and there’s a very real danger that such feelings will now re-emerge with a vengeance under a government led by his son.

From Washington Times