According to briefing notes acquired through access to information requests, the federal government is just as worried about the state of affairs in Alberta. CBC News has written about some of these briefing notes here:Individually, each report is interesting. This briefing note on the health of Canadian energy companies was almost entirely redacted. "The Alberta economy is so big, it has connections to every other piece of the Canadian economy." Moore said that with so much spending originating in Alberta and reverberating through the Canadian economy, Alberta has an outsized impact on the country as a whole.

Source: CBC News August 29, 2016 09:00 UTC