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“We’re kind of redneck down here, but not that redneck” – Alberta MP on Donald Trump

“Everyone’s as bewildered as, I think, the American media is about the rise of Donald Trump. We’re kind of redneck down here, but not that redneck.”

– Jim Hillyer, MP for Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner speaking to Embassy News about the rise of Donald Trump.

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Four decades of message consistency

“Most oil men say that the new tax will simply drive new industry out of the province to the expanding fields in the North.” – Ottawa Citizen on May 8, 1972 reporting on Peter Lougheed’s oil tax increase.