Justin Trudeau fails to mention Alberta in Canada Day 150 speech

[mac56]

Source: Global News Canada

To celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave a speech to a cheering crowd in Ottawa Saturday, highlighting the diversity and kinship of all the provinces and territories.

However, he failed to mention one major Canadian province in his speech — Alberta.

“We may live in British Columbia, Yukon, the Northwest Terrirtories, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia or Newfoundland or Laborador…but we embrace that diversity while knowing in our hearts we are all Canadians,” he said to during his speech at Rideau Hall.

Within minutes of this, people took to social media to point out the mistake. Some saw it as a harmless mistake while others took it a little more to heart.

Read more: http://globalnews.ca/news/3570266/justin-trudeau-canada-day-150-alberta/

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Yeah... that was bad.

Many are making much of it, in that his father Pierre Trudeau had ongoing issues with Alberta, and the current administration intends to advance on renewable energies instead of Alberta's oil.

So yeah, that was bad.

Still... if this is the biggest gaffe a country's leader makes...

[Chasstev365]

1. Hoser; take off, eh.

[Lucky Luciano]

2. Alberta has the most conservative dickheads in Canada, sooooo...

[OnlinePoker]

7. It has an NDP (socialist) government.

On edit: He also screwed up Newfoundland AND Labrador, not OR Labrador. It's one province.

[rpannier]

11. That will likely fade come next election

There was a lot of dissatisfaction with the state of the economy in Alberta
The Trudeaus are very disliked in most riders in Alberta.

[Paladin]

3. Jeez, those Canadians really have it tough, with a leader like that.

Sure am glad we don't have to worry about public spectacles like that.....

[Iggo]

4. Poor Canada.

I hope they can recover.

Thoughts and prayers.

[frazzled]

5. Weird, because just this morning

I was reading an article in the NYT about Canadian comedians, especially regarding US politics. And I recalled, having spent a lot of time in Canada during summers as a child, how even then I realized how much they knew about us and how little we knew about them.

So I tried, silently to myself, to name all the Canadian provinces. Trudeau got a hella lot further than I did!

[WinkyDink]

8. As perhaps one might expect?

[LakeArenal]

6. I want it to be an honest mistake....

I am so tired of tit for tat petty government.

[romanic]

9. Is there any bad blood between the Canadian provinces still?

I know of Quebec's constant fight to be independent of Canada but not much else.

[rpannier]

10. Many in Alberta hate the Trudeaus

And from what I understand, his father wasn't particularly keen on the province either
So, this will likely linger for quite a while