Errr, you missed the lumber industry,
You mean the pulp industry.
Alberta doesn't have much timber-grade wood, except in strips along the Rockies, most of which is in national and provincial parks.
There is jackpine in the north, but it grows very slow, such that after they do a cut they'll have to wait at least 90 years just to get a pole, whereas on the west coast lumber-grade trees can be back in 30 years. Because of the small size of the Alberta trees it's virtually all made into pulp.
Yeah there is a lot of coal. Most Albertans don't know that most of their electricity comes from coal fired stations up in the Swan hills... they tend to presume it's generated from natural gas.
If Alberta were to strip the top off all it's flatland (currently used for wheat) it could export a lot of coal, and that might suit the attitude of the current Alberta regime better. Before the PC's, the Socred government of Alberta was very much into the concept of sustainability (they learned it the hard way during the dust-bowl) but the Alberta PC's like exploitation of finite resources, so maybe the idea of repeating wheat crops is too confusing and they'd feel much more comfortable and familiar with stripping the soil off and trucking out the coal.
growing flatland wheat and raising foothills livestock *are* forms of farming.
Oh really. Okay, what do they manufacture. I know about glass in Medicine Hat and Cement in Ecshaw (although I'm not sure those count as manufacturing per se, more like secondary processing) and both of them are powered by cheap natural gas, which means both of those shut down when the methane wells dry up.
In Ontario, what do you have besides Government supported auto industry ?
They're on the Canadian shield which means mines, mines, and more mines.
Plus they have the best agricultural land in the country... the part they haven't paved over.
Plus they have lots of real manufacturing, not just secondary processing, beyond just vehicles... or at least they used to before the shareholders shipped all the jobs to China.
And in Quebec, besides Government supported Bombard...etc.?
Also on the Canadian shield, so mines, mines and more mines...plus they export enough hydro power to light up most of New York.
There are NO government supported industries in Alberta.
Oh really. So you mean TB Financial doesn't count as an industry?