1...In a time oil has been seriously undervalued, yet the products of that oil have not, why do we still continue to be merchants of oil? $12B to pipeline companies could have been $12B to refineries, production plants, jobs. Instead of Oil merchants we could have been...2
2...merchants of end-products, with us reaping the benefits of an inexpensive input material and having gained the benefits of all the value-added actions of OUR workforce. If we had kept the money in OUR borders, we could have ensured it improved OUR infrastructure...3
3...We could have subsidized myriads of manufacturing companies, skills, jobs. We could have had companies coming to us because we no longer felt the need to send our resources to them. We could have educated OUR population to the captains of those processes...4
4...This, this is a primary evidence of the corporate loyalty that @jkenney has. He committed to spending $12B he knew WE didn’t have. But, HE chose to send it out of OUR borders, along with OUR resources, to be made into THEIR value-added end-products...5
5...This was to THEIR advantage, not OURS.
People, this isn’t rocket surgery. It shouldn’t have taken a family doctor to make note of this. This was the govt’s job to do. In a world that is trying to pull back their economies to be more self-sufficient and financially...6
6...secure, countries are re-locating their production mechanisms into their homelands. This is the exact actions large corporations don’t want. They want cheap materials shipped to cheap labour, necessitating border crossings. @jkenney is doing just that...7
7...So, when you look around and you see healthcare getting attacked and you see education getting attacked, know that these are two institutions that are not easily transported out of borders. Thus they are to be devalued to take money from them. All other industries...8
8...that can be mobilized to send out of province will be “supported” and manipulated to encourage those processes of mobilization.
When you see medicine and teaching victimized, realize you are victimized too. Not simply through your vulnerable being hurt, and your...9
9...your children’s futures being limited, but through the manipulations of your own industries/institutions that have been ever greater vertically integrated to disadvantage you and subvert your value.
Look at your industries, investigate your employers. See where the...10
10...where the buck stops. Is your company keeping resources in province or are they taking it out of province? Are they honouring free market principles, or are they buying up all their resource suppliers and manufacturers for themselves to set up as their own...11
11...economies? You belong to your communities, and your communities exist in a province. They aren’t structures of a company.
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