True. But I wonder how many of those attending would actively come out in support of Alberta oil and how many would be all to eager to wave a green flag? The whole game is rife with hypocrisy.
It surely is.
True. But I wonder how many of those attending would actively come out in support of Alberta oil and how many would be all to eager to wave a green flag? The whole game is rife with hypocrisy.
Some might even say consorting with the enemy. As oil prices are affected and people from across Canada continue to lose their jobs, we need only to look within our own borders to see the real pigs at the trough who are contributing to lost revenues. Aside from the fact that Ontario, Quebec and some Maritime Provinces are putting the environment at risk by shipping in their oil via supertanker from Saudi Arabia, they are also taking advantage of the cheap oil deliberately being flooded on the market to cripple oil producing nations like Canada.
The result is a slow down in the economy, huge loss in tax revenues that is felt from coast to coast. While the environmental windbags in Ontario and Quebec complain about pipelines they are in fact putting our precious waterways at risk while increasing their carbon footprint.
I wonder why no one is asking our esteemed Prime Minister about this.
So, the two provinces mentioned are playing a key role by buying from the same foreign producers who are attempting to wipe out their competitors. Canada should be protecting it's own interest by dumping foreign oil and buying at home.
If you send it to Ontario and Quebec, it will not end up, here.
Crude oil in the volumes intended to flow through energy East requires the use of solvents to thin it out. What is used is a refined product that easily cooks into fuels and various other light esters for goods and medicines. It would take two years tops to construct a refinery that removes and brews off these products leaving crude to export that cuts Irving out of the picture.It would if the governments in these provinces sat down and hammered out a deal.
Do I oppose free trade. No, we need to be able to trade, but I oppose trading with tyrannical states like Saudi Arabia or China.
Canada has the most effed up trade deals, even with the United States. We tax our own country into the ground while giving tax breaks to other countries. You can buy Canadian goods outside the country cheaper than within.
And of course the proposal of carbon taxes is just another way of stealing from the public.
Who do you folks think that cost get passed onto?
The complacency of Canadians and the utter lack of will and naivete is really disheartening.
Only 49% of oil goes to fuel.
The other 51% is used in manufactured goods and health.
Does ON want in on Canadian sourced "other" or not?
If you don't, Western Canada will.
Crude oil in the volumes intended to flow through energy East requires the use of solvents to thin it out. What is used is a refined product that easily cooks into fuels and various other light esters for goods and medicines. It would take two years tops to construct a refinery that removes and brews off these products leaving crude to export that cuts Irving out of the picture.
What say does Ontario or Quebec have in any of it? How do we demand "Canadian Sourced" anything from a system totally controlled by foreigners for their benefit?
You live in a democracy. You have an MP. Everyone in Canada has an MP. If Canadians weren't so complacent we could make substantial changes.
I do e-mail my MP, usually to propose freer trade, freer immigration, and ideas to promote greater administrative efficiency.
Do I pass the grade?
Yes, I wish more Canadian's did the same. But your love affair with carbon taxes is appalling.
Ontario is the enemy of the country. Always has been. Soon Ontario will be a has been province if it isn't already as the bases of financial power move west to where the action is.
Think this guy is going to ask for better gps aps for people who use them? (now would be a good time for the prisoner and staff of one certain prison hit him up and the validity of some publications compared to real world applications)You live in a democracy. You have an MP. Everyone in Canada has an MP. If Canadians weren't so complacent we could make substantial changes.
Why would it be in the west's advantage/interest to increase financial growth past a certain point if that income is just taken away and handed to Provinces like Ontario and Quebec? Ontario has enough agricultural land if they swapped out crops like tobacco for pot. medical pot with the seeds coming from BC 'outlaw growers'. Grind it up, rate it's potency and mix with other blends so the thc content is the same across a certain level but aroma and taste differs. The Great Lakes should be fished like the Grand Banks were, Canada doing the maintenance of the water and the US processing the catches and the profits are fed back into both areas with the goal being increased production equates to a lower prices for the locals and a high demand for the (very healthy) fish on a foreign market. That would include people in the west.You only have action in the West until you stop digging money out of the ground then you go "Oh, well" pull up stakes and move on. There are the skeletons of communities just like that all over the West. When the oil is gone and the water is gone, Calgary will end up like Detroit, a has-been place with no reason to exist.
Then it was obviously overbuilt in the first place, which is true. Why are the lakes not part of the income for every Province/State that has a shoreline rather than all the money being sank into mines, that always have a finite life. The lakes are natural for a renewable resource and anybody with a fish ponds knows the fish grow way too fast when being 'overfed'. On a larger scale on the lakes the feeding could promote the schools of fish to move from area to area in a controlled manner. The 'flatlands' have lots of sloughs and shallow lakes that are green with algae because of the phosphate that runs off the fields. That could be harvested and shipped east and dumped in the water where there are alge eating fish.When the oil is gone and the water is gone, Calgary will end up like Detroit, a has-been place with no reason to exist.
What alternative tax do you propose?