Alberta: Canada’s Emissary to the US of A?

Maybe it’s Quebec’s seat at UNESCO that spurred Alberta into action, or maybe it’s just sheer western entrepreneurial spirit, but Alberta is making quite a name for its self as outreach ambassador to the United States.

Alberta’s sprawling exhibit at the Smithsonian's Folklife Festival on prime Mall real estate, complete with grain elevator demo, oil pump, and mini stampede, Mounties, Canadian cuisine, is enough to make any Canadian proud (even this Quebecker).

The exhibit is a genius marketing ploy that has a willing audience of thousands of 4th of July happy tourists and involves gimics like handing out yo-yos on the streets of Washington encouraging passer by to visit Edmonton, “Canada’s festival city” (who knew)?

Tonight it’s cocktail drinking and fireworks viewing with our very own father of the GST and Alberta’s Minister of International and Intergovernmental Relations.

Who needs a seat a UNESCO, when you are sitting on prime real estate, flaunting your goods, in front of our biggest trading partner?

NB – Remember to get those Liberal membership forms in - today is the day and the last chance to get your forms in to be able to participate in an anythingcouldhappenwide – open race...