Honestly, Manning just said what a lot of us out West have been thinking for years

Ottawa keeps pushing policies that punish our industries and ignore our values, and then they act shocked when we talk about separation. Carney and Poilievre can clutch their pearls all they want, but Western alienation is real, and it’s not going anywhere under Liberal rule. The East gets handouts while we get carbon taxes and lectures. If voting Liberal means more of the same, then yeah, people are going to start asking if we’d be better off on our own. Pretending everything’s fine doesn’t make the problem go away.