Alberta’s budget forecasts an improving economy from increased fossil fuel production and provides scant details about efforts to fight climate change. Meanwhile, Teck has withdrawn its $20 billion Frontier oil sands mine application, as Alberta wins its carbon tax challenge in court.

Independent pollster Janet Brown, journalist Jason Markusoff and political scientist Roger Epp take stock of what Alberta sees when it looks in the mirror, and how that’s reflected in the rest of Canada.