"easterners always got their tin cup stuck in the west's face".

When the prairies had "very few pennies to rub together", eastern Canada, and, mostly Ontario factory workers, filled the prairies tin cups to fund the transportation links and pipelines, so that the western provinces could ship their agricultural , oil and gas and other stuff out. Government (on the eastern dime) even paid a heafty transportation subsidy to get their stuff, like wheat, to eastern markets.

Funny how memories are so short, when folks get new found change to jingle in rtheir pockets.