Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy in CanadaThe contributors to Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracycritically assess the political peculiarities of Alberta and the impactof the governments relationship to the oil industry on the livesof the provinces most vulnerable citizens. They also examine thepublic policy environment and the entrenchment of neoliberal politicalideology in the province. In probing the relationship between oildependency and democracy in the context of an industrialized