At any rate, central control of natural resources in Canada is a dead letter even without considering Alberta because no other province would agree to it, not the least Quebec.
That's kind of what I was getting at. It's certainly all kinds of fun to point to Norway's legendary fund, which benefits them all, and then chastise ourselves for not doing the same with our own bounty.
But evidently Norway didn't just nobly decide to share the wealth with every citizen, they also didn't indulge some of themselves in a game of "well, that's OUR stuff, and you others can't have any of OUR stuff". But nobody talks about that. When the Sovereign Wealth fund is mentioned, our lack of a similar Sovereign Wealth fund is described as a failure of our central government (of the day) to show courage, rather than as a failure of the regional governments of the day to put the pettiness aside and think of Canada as a whole.