This thread made me worried for moment. I grabbed my passport and checked my nationality expecting to find "British Columbian" but it actually says "Canadian". Now I'm just confused. What are you all complaining about again?
Ontario takes $2.2 Billions in Transfer Payments
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Hyperbole fail.
Also, the oil came before the manufacturing.
I never said I agreed with it.
How assumptive of you.
Looks like you enjoy your history... Here's an idea, why don't you figure-out which was the last province to act as the national ATM for Canada since PET (don't forget the NEP or PetroCanada).
Here's a hint: Ignore this question because only one province has had that responsibility heaved-onto their shoulders and you'll look like a fool if you actually try to answer it.
"Insanity" doesn't fully capture the depth of retardedness of the comment
provinces whose oil and gas are fuelling growth in India and China ...WTF!? where does this insanity come from?? about 97% of Canadian oil production goes to the US..NOT India and China...typically it is the brain dead easterner that makes up shyte when they don't the topic...especially McGinty...
Quite possibly. The health card is what I used and it doesn't count as an ID.
The point is the province is not a nationality. Though I've heard Ontario is the only province where the people by and large claim to be Canadian first, rather than Ontarian.
TD forecast this would happen in 2008. I guess we can add you to either the group of mathtards here, or to the general class of ignorati.
Ontario could get equalization payments within 2 years: TD - Canada - CBC News
I don't know about yours, but mine looks like this. See, it says "Canadian/Canadienne" on the photo page. Valerie Specimen's a nice looking girl, isn't she?
Why would I look like a fool? I have never made a factually impossible claim on that topic. If I answered that question would it contradict anything I've said in this thread or ever on this forum? Durry, on the other hand, claimed to live in a province that has never received equalization payments. No province can make that claim.
Nice try there.
What are transfer payments if not some of the taxes collected by the feds being returned to the people who payed them in the first place. How much federal tax has been collected from Ontario and what percentage of that has been returned? The last time I checked we all live in Canada. Why is it that just because Alberia has recently become a have province, they think they are above everybody else and are reluctant to share with those who once shared with them. How childish of the nuveau riche.
Nationality "Canadian" once you've "naturalized" you can use you Provincial ID to get a passport that has your new "Nationality".
The comment goes nowhere in recognizing why Eastern mfg is uncompetitive in the global markets. Having to depend on a weak dollar to be competitive is no kind of solution.
Show me a Canadian Birth Certificate and not a Provincial one.
You don't even have to be Canadian to get a Canadian passport.
I notice that you never answered the question... But let's cut to the chase on the equalization issue: It has morphed into a form of quasi-provincial welfare wherein some recipients have an utter dependency on it to float a program of unsustainable spending. The take-away on this is that if the Feds perpetuate this program, the have-not provinces have an incentive to not develop their economies independently as there will always be the soft option available.
I think that it's fair to say that any economist would not support the Canadian model as it currently exists as a form of state welfare.