1. @JKenney @PremierScottMoe
As a Canadian living outside AB/SK, I'm experiencing All of Canada EXCEPT AB/SK alienation by Western Protest Conservatives who keep on trying to impose Harperism on all of the rest of us.
As such, I've some demands as well:
#CdnPoli
As a Canadian living outside AB/SK, I'm experiencing All of Canada EXCEPT AB/SK alienation by Western Protest Conservatives who keep on trying to impose Harperism on all of the rest of us.
As such, I've some demands as well:
#CdnPoli
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a. Stop lying to Western Canadians about that which equalization is. You transfer not a cent to the feds. It is the feds who opt to set aside money that is rightfully theirs in order to help have-not provinces. If equalization were cancelled, AB wouldn't have a nickle more.
a. Stop lying to Western Canadians about that which equalization is. You transfer not a cent to the feds. It is the feds who opt to set aside money that is rightfully theirs in order to help have-not provinces. If equalization were cancelled, AB wouldn't have a nickle more.
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b. Alberta must institute a provincial sales tax. Every other Canadian that does pay a provincial/territorial sales tax is pretty much tired of subsidizing your 0% PST every time an AB government can't balance its books.
b. Alberta must institute a provincial sales tax. Every other Canadian that does pay a provincial/territorial sales tax is pretty much tired of subsidizing your 0% PST every time an AB government can't balance its books.
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c. Alberta must start contributing generously, once again, to its Heritage Savings Trust Fund. It is not up to every other Canadian to bail you out every time the eventual bust of a boom/bust oil cycle hits because successive AB governments refuse to plan for one.
c. Alberta must start contributing generously, once again, to its Heritage Savings Trust Fund. It is not up to every other Canadian to bail you out every time the eventual bust of a boom/bust oil cycle hits because successive AB governments refuse to plan for one.
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d. Enough with the Québec/Francophone-bashing, threatening your neighbours with turning off the taps, and stoking national disunity.
Canada helped get the oil and gas sector off the ground, has subsidized it annually for decades upon decades, spent $4.5B on TMX...
d. Enough with the Québec/Francophone-bashing, threatening your neighbours with turning off the taps, and stoking national disunity.
Canada helped get the oil and gas sector off the ground, has subsidized it annually for decades upon decades, spent $4.5B on TMX...
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d (2). ...plans to spend $8 - 10B more on the twinning of TMX, sent another $1.6B your way when things really got bad, and didn't bat an eye before helping with the Fort Mac wildfires.
It's not like you get NOTHING for your contribution to Canada.
Acknowledge it!
d (2). ...plans to spend $8 - 10B more on the twinning of TMX, sent another $1.6B your way when things really got bad, and didn't bat an eye before helping with the Fort Mac wildfires.
It's not like you get NOTHING for your contribution to Canada.
Acknowledge it!
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e. Respect the courts. There was no "split decision". You lost. More than once. Continuing to fight #CarbonRegulationPricing in the courts is becoming an act of misappropriation of public fund for strictly partisan purposes.
It is unethical.
Stop it.
e. Respect the courts. There was no "split decision". You lost. More than once. Continuing to fight #CarbonRegulationPricing in the courts is becoming an act of misappropriation of public fund for strictly partisan purposes.
It is unethical.
Stop it.
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f. Quit your incessant dehuminization, demonization or your fellow Canadians.
Liberals aren't evil.
New Democrats are not communists.
Nobody is trying to kill Western Canada's economy.
Stop provoking inter-regional rage.
f. Quit your incessant dehuminization, demonization or your fellow Canadians.
Liberals aren't evil.
New Democrats are not communists.
Nobody is trying to kill Western Canada's economy.
Stop provoking inter-regional rage.
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g. FFS, take a few science lessons!
"The planet's on fucking fire!!!" and "Nothing's free you idiots; grow the fuck up! You're not children anymore!" -- Bill Nye
Stop trying to choke the living shit out of Mother Nature.
That's all!
#CdnPoli
g. FFS, take a few science lessons!
"The planet's on fucking fire!!!" and "Nothing's free you idiots; grow the fuck up! You're not children anymore!" -- Bill Nye
Stop trying to choke the living shit out of Mother Nature.
That's all!
#CdnPoli
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PS: The equalization formula about which you complain was designed in 2009 while now-Premier Kenney was a Minister in the most pro-oil federal Cabinet in Canadian history with a pro-oil Premier of Alberta (Stelmach) in place.
It was 100% "Made in Alberta"
PS: The equalization formula about which you complain was designed in 2009 while now-Premier Kenney was a Minister in the most pro-oil federal Cabinet in Canadian history with a pro-oil Premier of Alberta (Stelmach) in place.
It was 100% "Made in Alberta"
11. If it is "unfair", it is because YOU made it so.
We can't keep going around changing the formula to maximize the benefit to just your two provinces each and every time oil booms then busts.
Your options: Plan better for each or ride the wave like the rest of us.
#CdnPoli
We can't keep going around changing the formula to maximize the benefit to just your two provinces each and every time oil booms then busts.
Your options: Plan better for each or ride the wave like the rest of us.
#CdnPoli
