RE:Packer , you asked Banshee wrote: And now you will receive , chapter 2 , transgressions or would you and C prefer half truths , mistruths or just outright manipulating numbers to suit your flawed case. I will only mention a few unless you require chapter 3 .First , as an Islander you claim to be a pipe hugger. Really as you knock every Conservative PM from Dief , Mullroney and Harper and others , then you must have voted NDP or Liberal , both pipe hating Federal patties and who provincially had your support WHorgan , everyone an obstructionist to building pipes or supporting the patch including your bands of Casino owners , who now support TMX because they will get a piece of the action. Second you deride Harper for not getting a pipe built during his tenure as PM. Hello , Hello The 3 pipes you mentioned plus Mainline East , Keystone and Northern Gateway were all approved by his administration only to fall foul to Leftwing judges , ecoterrorists , bands of indigenous , your provincial party as well as the Quebecois , all voters of Liberals , including Oil haters like Barack and Biden. Third , at no time have you ever acknowledged the contribution by Alberta other than belittling it , they are wealthy , hello dimwit remember COVID and negative oil , not in your memory or Quebec canning The Mainline to save whales while Saudi tankers go up and down the river bringing oil from a degenerate corrupt regime. You also claim to own a number of oil companies but Alberta and the patch are your whipping boys, talk about biting the hand that feeds you, that's if anything you say has an ounce of truth and not so e parrot like requoting from some fossil fuel hating American organization like the WEF of the Sierra Club. Enough said , if you want Chapter 3 just ask and for you l will gladly Oblige. Say hello to Citizen for me , your one and only supporter it seems.
I don't have a "flawed case", I have a good grasp of history and current numbers.
Alberta has 11% of the population and is responsible for 16% of Canadian GDP. That's good, that ratio of GDP to population is better than the all other provinces....and I have stated this before and that's why your median, average and household income is higher that in other provinces.
There's big money in oil. WE GET IT !
What you don't seem to grasp or acknowledge is that Ontario alone represents 37% of the country's population, put ON and QC together and it's 60% of the population (and 56% of GDP)
Those are the NUMBERS. It's not as if you could change them. Alberta is part of a BIG country.
If you can't handle or make your peace with that (while making the biggest paycheques and paying the lowest taxes in the country) then there is the Clarity Act (you can thank Chretien for that) I don't know what else to tell you. I really don't. I would caution though that if you think pipelines are hard to build now just think how harder it will be when you want to built them through a foreign country!
Diefenbaker ran on cancelling the "Mainline" gas pipeline started by the previous Liberal government.
Google "The great pipeline debate" it'll take you to the Canadian Encyclopedia. You probably put historians in the same camp as academics and teachers....all enemmies of yours, apparently.
I was too youg to have an opinion good or bad about Dief. It's shame he scrapped that nice plane though.... Mulroney I was kind of lukewarm on...he sounded good...NAFTA is/was a good thing (even though the stongest, widest support for it was in Quebec). Replacing the naufacturing tax with the GST was brilliant....consumption taxes are always a better way to go... Harper did rub me the wrong way, I must admit. Especially those sweaters! ;);) At least the whole country is now past his steadfast denial of human caused climate change....except for you of course.
FYI.....Covid occured across the country, not just in AB. The WEF is not an American fuel hating organization. Mainline East is not a thing....it's Energy East. (I'm sure I said that before)