Roger Gibbins’ article “Political Discontent in the Prairie West, Patterns of Continuity and Change” gives his readers a perspective into the western Canada’s political landscape up to the 1984 federal election. Gibbins uses pass federal elections to point out there has been an ongoing pattern of regional discontent in western Canada, which has not changed since the turn of the century. Economic dependency plays a part in the western Canada regional discontent, along with the lack of western representation in the House of Commons, which is referred to as western alienation. The root cause of the western alienation comes from the continual frustration that western Canadians believe they are left out of Canadian federal political, economic,
