RE:RE:For All Holding CWB, I hope This Goes ThroughPaker - you really are dense. Where so you thing the Feds get the money to pay for things. Between 1968 and 2018, transfers, from only tax, and excluding all the Fed levies, GST and royalties on natural resources, from Alberta to the Federal coffers totalled more than $630 billion, working out to $3,700 per Albertan per year over this time period. Alberta currently pays about $20 BILLION a year more than we get back. Quebec, Ont and the Maritimes are the big benificiaries. The only reason the Feds built the pipeline, and spent three tiems as much money as it should have cost, is they ran off the privvate owners that would have built it at no cost to any tax payer.
Try extracting you head from your anal orifice for a while, it smells better and you can see more.
packerdriver wrote:
It just NEVER ends, does it? So much for the ususal complaints that there's not enough competition in banking and the "big banks" are a problem... Or the usual complaints about Quebec and Ottawa shafting the west. When a Quebec bank takes over an Alberta bank it's quite alright all of a sudden if they waive a bunch of cash in front of investor's noses.
You're afraid Ottawa will block this sale??? I remember when SK almost went to war with Ottawa to force it to BLOCK the sale of Potash corp. It's hard to keep up with your persecution complex.
But why stop there?? Why not complain about the Feds building a 34 billion dollar pipeline??? With not a dollar of contribution from Alberta? What an outrage that Ottawa can just meddle in provincial matters like that, eh? Or complain about Ottawa kicking in 1.5 Billlion for that transit line in Calgary that had been planned for TEN YEARS...but the province and city could never seemed to find the money for it.
The NERVE of the Feds to stick their noses in there, eh?