EDMONTON (cP) _
Prime Minister Trudeau
grates on. western nerves
like fingernails.on a dlatk-

’ Much of the present unrest
onthe Prairies can be traced —

to old economic grievances

combizied witt what seems
to be a basic conflict of at-
titude and outlook between ©
East and West, with Trudeau
bearing the brumt of the

western vittiol.

Ermest Manning, former

“The old concept of
Canada was a heavily
populated, .
dustrialized Central Canada
protected by. tariffs against
undue outside competition

and a hinterland to the east

and west that provided raw
materials and bought
qroducts at the prices the
manufacturers set.

“That is an over-sim-
piification, but that’s the

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heavily in--

general feeling of the people
out here,”

‘Those. grievances, in~

themselves, would not create
_ the present: angry mood.
Adding Ottawa's perceived
altitude to arrogance and
confrontation made for valy
_ feelings,

There was also the western

ahead

. for westerners,
- federal election demonstra-—

feeling of being dominated.

by Central Canada's
masalve parliamentary
representation. In the past
that was a less of a problem,

but today it tba nagging ache
The ‘last

ted all too. clearly ithe
political impotence of the.
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Manning said the federal
liberals, in effect, won re-
election by promising to hold
down prices.

reality, to letting the people
of Alberta subsidize the cost

votes in Ontario.

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people of Western Canada.
It’s not merely this im-
balance in representation —

‘which people can't quarrel.

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-“We- now find ourselves —
with tremendous sommes
clout, but still ‘wit |

the people of Central.
Cina au . .
The constitutional ‘debate
fa yet another straw addedto 1
the creaking back of . the

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west”

contends that Trudeau's —_

premier of Alberta, who has . fl
dealt with Ottawa on various ;
levels for years, sees an
unfriendly mood in the
present federal government.
In a recent interview the.
72-year-old Manning, a
senator now after 33 yoars in
Alberta politics, sald there
in Ottawa today an
“attitude of confrontation
rather than compromise.”
Asa politician who has ©
dealt with five prime.
f ministers, Manning seea a
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federal-provincial relations
which fuels the fire of
- weetern anger. —

"You hesitate to attach
blame to individuals, but my
impression is that Trudeau
manifests an arrogance,
almoat a contempt for the
provinctal positions on these
things that just rubs
everybody the wrong way,”
Manning says of the man
who appointed him to the
Senate. —

a isn't only Trudeau,
though,
“Certainly, in the. energy

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