Canada slips a notch in global competitiveness ranking

[captain morgan]

Wynne says she's sorry the Hydro rates are way up............Is that a start ?:lol:

She can't understand why industry voted with their feet - quite a few years ago.

It's a mugs game bud.

Artificially low power rates (or anything) are paid-for on the back end through increased provincial tax rates.

Add in the notion that you now need another gvt dept to administer this process and those costs increase again

I think you mean Alberta.

It's addicted to oil subsidies.

We do love our Federal subsidies... Keep the armoured cars rolling west from Ottawa... I'll be waiting

 

[darkbeaver]

Statistics make a thin stew.

 

[Blackleaf]

So do you have any evidence to show there was a wrecked economy in that timeframe and that government policy was the direct cause?

Where were you when Britain suffered the worst recession since the 1940s? Outer Mongolia?

 

[Walter]

Where were you when Britain suffered the worst recession since the 1940s? Outer Mongolia?

He's a teenager and has no sense of history.

 

[Walter]

Guess they missed this, too.
Canada Posts Larger-than-Expected Trade Surplus in July - WSJ

 

[Blackleaf]

He's a teenager and has no sense of history.

I'm only 33, but if he's actually a teenager then he wouldn't have long been weaned off Farley's Rusks when the crisis began in 2008.