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You might assume the rest of Canada has observed Alberta’s unfolding economic implosion with a bit of concern, if not outright alarm.

After all, as hard as it may be to recall now, this province was the country’s undisputed economic engine for over a decade.

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Between 2000 and 2014, Alberta’s energy-fired economy generated more than $200 billion of net wealth for the nation’s coffers, while employing tens of thousands of Canadians who couldn’t find decent jobs in places like Moncton, Windsor or Kelowna.

As John Rose, the City of Edmonton’s chief economist once put it to me, Alberta’s oil-driven economic boom helped prevent a “social disaster”in many Canadian towns and cities where jobless rates remain perpetually high.

Before oil prices cratered in late 2014, crude ranked as Canada’s top export, and the energy sector attracted a third of the nation’s capital investment. When crude prices tanked, it erased $60 billion of annual income from Canada’s economy.