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?
Yeah! Those Western bastards... How dare they develop a world class resource and keep Canada's dollar strong when it is so much more convenient to have a Canadian Peso that will prop-up Eastern Canada's uncompetitive, uneconomic and failing manufacturing sector.
WWaaaayyy too funny.
You post this crap in the thread that outlines the $2.2 billion in direct cash into Ontario?
Hey, maybe you can post a few articles about the feds bailing-out the auto mfgrs in Ontario while you're at it too?
Hypocrite
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?
Oh? Which province would that be?
Here's a hint: ignore this question because every province has been a recipient of equalization payments and you'll look like a fool if actually answer it.
If I had to guess which province he was referring to I would have guessed Ontario, which was the last province that was able to claim to have never received equalization payments. It lost that status in 2009 after actually qualifying for equalization many years before but forgoing payment. Alberta was one of the first provinces to receive payments when the program started, meaning it has never been able to claim that status.
Maybe Durry's referring to an imaginary province.
the cause of Ontario as a "have-not" is Alberta's oil production.
hahaha..that's not delusional ..it's just plain insanity..!!
Passport only says you live in Canada. All your ID is Provincial.
Could you obtain it without the other pieces?
the cause of Ontario as a "have-not" is Alberta's oil production.
hahaha..that's not delusional ..it's just plain insanity..!!
Passport only says you live in Canada. All your ID is Provincial.
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.
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
That should be the final nail in the coffin.The startling turnaround in the fortunes of Ontario is largely due to soaring commodity prices and a new equalization formula that takes into account non-renewable resource revenues, according to the report's authors.
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
R&D investment is why ON manufacturing has failed.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.
Nationality "Canadian" once you've "naturalized" you can use you Provincial ID to get a passport that has your new "Nationality".
Show me a Canadian Birth Certificate and not a Provincial one.We already have enough moronic statements in this thread. Don't you start too.
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.
The report notes that last year's change to the equalization formula from a five-province to a 10-province standard "brought Alberta into the picture and their soaring resource revenues" have driven up the base upon which equalization payments are based.
The federal equalization program is designed to compensate "have-not" provinces so that their residents can have the same level of services as richer provinces. In the 2008-09 fiscal year, six provinces — the four in Atlantic Canada, Quebec and Manitoba — will receive more than $13.6 billion in equalization payments.
The authors say Ontario's relative decline is "not so much a story of Ontario weakness as it is of booming economic strength in Canada's commodity-based economies."
Since Ontario is a net importer of commodities, its economic performance relative to the west has been hurt.
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.