tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post1621465566997827560..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Another Body Blow for Athabasca, Jason Kenney, and Pipeline BoyThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-87995303458238645252020-02-12T15:55:58.818-08:002020-02-12T15:55:58.818-08:00BM, these transitions are never easy. Alberta is s...BM, these transitions are never easy. Alberta is saddled with a resource that is becoming a market pariah. Royalties are minimal. The costs of environmental degradation are astronomical. They have to cook the books to make it seem viable.<br /><br />They're riding the tiger and dare not step off. What have they got to fall back on but to blame everyone else for their woes.The Disaffected Libhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13135599782685108764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-56734665080367289232020-02-12T15:50:16.130-08:002020-02-12T15:50:16.130-08:00Rumley, if their economy was diverse why do they k...Rumley, if their economy was diverse why do they keep falling on hard times? The Disaffected Libhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13135599782685108764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-5228898280236178982020-02-12T15:06:30.187-08:002020-02-12T15:06:30.187-08:00e.a.f., I too have noticed an unusual number of Al...e.a.f., I too have noticed an unusual number of Alberta vehicles on our roads lately. Some, I assume, are British Columbians who went to Alberta for work when energy prices were buoyant.<br /><br />Several years ago Nikiforuk wrote a book exploring the commonalities in petro-states whether in the Middle East, Africa or the Americas. The similarities are chilling. Petro-states tend to see a merger of the political and private sectors, what we sometimes call the "oil patch" in Canada.<br /><br />Rather than following Lougheed's warnings, our political caste lost control as they allowed the energy giants too much say. Akin to what was said of the Rothchilds and the Bank of England. If you owe the Bank of England a hundred pounds, it owns you. If you owe the Bank of England a million pounds, you own the Bank.<br /><br />Alberta has been run by profligate wastrels aided by a public who came to believe they could be exempt from provincial taxes in perpetuity. They've gone through a succession of boom and bust cycles and still don't get it. Jim Prentice knew Alberta needed a stable tax base but Notley bumped him off.The Disaffected Libhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13135599782685108764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-18035334262322746252020-02-12T14:47:50.984-08:002020-02-12T14:47:50.984-08:00Kenney shows a remarkable lack of imagination or i...Kenney shows a remarkable lack of imagination or inspiration in everything but getting himself personally into a comfy position. There he was as craftily ruthless as they come. His solution for Alberta's woes and huge and gowing unemployment is to double down on bitumen from tarsands production. "Teck .. squawk .. pipelines... squawk, complain .. squawk .. Trudeau hates us .. moan.. " ad infinitum. And that's all she wrote - that's the Plan. Advanced, what?<br /><br />Buttressing Alberta's tech sector? "What's tech it's not oil" is about the limit of the vision of the social regressive king of the Western Prairie. Oh, sorry, I forgot about giving corporations $4.7 billion in tax cuts to trickle down the gutter or remediate wells, definitely not for deposit in offshore tax havens, that's right out; the second policy is cutting pay and employment for dastardly provincial civil servants living high off the hog ha ha, just because he's a spiteful little brute and can.<br /><br />All these huge companies and pension funds rejecting further investment in Alberta just seems to make kenney even more rigid in his outlook. Cue the War Room to combat the world. He is incapable of reading the writing on the wall. Sadly, it seems to me, the general Alberta population is about as dim. Thus the rest of us must all bear the continuing frothy scathing criticism from kenney for the foreseaable future, and by a triumvirate of whining, complaining and claims of unfairness, be expected to compensate a province for its former spendthrift ways now that it's down on its luck. Brother can you spare a dime is a bit gauche for that lot.<br /><br />Who knows, maybe the majority who voted the dope in to be a paranoid dickhead with his War Room and snarls against outrageous fortune, will wake up some day. I'm not holding my breath. Entitlement is a deep feeling to erase.<br /><br />BMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-75810259766212541962020-02-12T14:45:37.550-08:002020-02-12T14:45:37.550-08:00Just the other day I saw someone elsewhere commen...Just the other day I saw someone elsewhere comment that Alberta has the most diverse economy in Canada . Jason's hysterics seem to put the lie to that . <br /><br />The cons in Alberta seem happy to destroy their economy to prove the lie that oily sludge rules . Bon chance boys.rumleyfipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03346146988416679423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-54431085736826366332020-02-12T13:55:32.045-08:002020-02-12T13:55:32.045-08:00Is Jason that desperate or just that stupid. If ...Is Jason that desperate or just that stupid. If the major investment organizations, banks and insurance companies are leaving the industry, why is he stamping his feet? who is going to pay attention? what does he hope to gain? why isn't Jason trying to diversify the Alberta economy? With all the empty office towers and lower cost of housing you'd think he'd be demanding these companies move their offices to Calgary. its a reasonable demand, given they want to be "ethical". ''<br /><br />there are only 5 million or so people in Alberta. Politically they aren't as important as Ontario and Quebec. why does the man keeping cutting off his nose to spit some one else, who doesn't care.<br /><br />Living in Nanaimo, the increase in Alberta vehicles is amazing. <br /><br />If Jason were a tad smarter and not so careless with taxpayers' money he'd start projects to clean up the "orphaned" wells in Alberta. It might give the economy a bit of jump and circulate money. Tax breaks aren't going to create jobs. It simply defunds government. Now god forbid this is written, but if Jason implemented even a 2% sales tax it could be used to clean up "orphaned wells" AND Provide some relief for communities which no longer receive property taxes from oil companies. <br /><br />Alberta needs to re think their economy and about the only politician who is doing that outside of the NDP is the Mayor of Calgary. He was in Vancouver this week drumming up business. hell, they ought to invite Amazon or some other IT corporations. Alberta has an educated work force, they could be doing much better.e.a.f.noreply@blogger.com