western alienation

British  

noun

1. a feeling of resentment by some inhabitants of western Canada against perceived favouritism by the national government towards the eastern provinces

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Example Sentences

This sense of "western alienation", a term used to describe the feeling that the region is often overlooked by politicians in Canada's capital, is nothing new.

From BBC

For a native Albertan to address Western alienation is a challenge, said Michael Hawes, executive director of Fulbright Canada, “but she is a successful and purposeful politician, she has entered into negotiations that were difficult, she doesn’t suffer fools easily and she clearly has the ear of the prime minister.”

From Los Angeles Times

But western alienation — the sense that the rest of Canada has stacked the deck against the country’s west — is as old as the country itself.

From Washington Post

Voters there turned away from Mr Trudeau's party amid complaints that the region's interests are not represented in the capital, Ottawa, and growing talk of "western alienation" in Canada's oil-producing heartland.

From BBC

Both these trends—Western alienation and Quebec nationalism—were as evident, and worrying, in 1972 as they are now.

From The New Yorker