Harper is indeed originally from Toronto but has lived in Alberta since college and it's blatantly obviously the province with which he's most strongly associated.
Yawn. The leftist double standard. If I were to move to Ontario, establish a home, run for legislature, every one of my opponents would harp about my Albertan values, whatever those are perceived to be. Fact is, Harper is not as pro-Alberta business as you'd like to believe. He has a track record of being more willing to pander for ontarian votes than western ones.
'Leftist double standard'? What on Earth does a 'leftist double standard' have to do with what province somebody is from? Plain fact is that Harper is associated with the province he has spent his entire adult life in and has represented in the House of Commons on and off for twenty years, rather than the province he left for greener (or oilier) pastures after dropping out of his first university. This is just the way it is. Also, the staggering margins that Harper and his cronies run up in Alberta indicates that either he does a fine job of pandering for Western votes, 'more willing' or otherwise, or he has no need to and hence can focus on pandering for votes elsewhere. (Barack Obama doesn't notably pander to blacks on the South Side of Chicago, nor David Cameron to toffs in rural Oxfordshire. Showing favor once elections are duly won is, of course, another matter.)
