Canada

Alberta would end up becoming a US state, going from richest in Canada to middle of the pack in the US.

What it needs to do is start its version of the Bloc or actually start swinging from party to party. The Liberals have nothing to gain there (although it didn't keep them from spending billions on a pipeline for Alberta, guess that's what they mean by the Liberals not caring) and the Conservatives don't need to make any effort to gain Alberta anyway (so they end up treating them worse than the Liberals even though Albertans don't realize it).

They also need to pull their head out of their ass and stop acting like just because they collect taxes from the oil industry then can connect less taxes from their citizens. Their oil fund is worth peanuts while Norway was inspired by them and created a fund that is now worth close to 2 trillion. They can take 3% from it every year, which is more than Alberta's annual operating expenses. They built that fund while extracting less oil than Alberta and while sitting on a much smaller reserve. Alberta's fund could be worth two or three times as much of they had managed it the way Norway did.