OPEC+ agrees to 10% production cuts.
Symbolic gesture?
Pretty sad rebuttal
Oh Cap you sounded like such a sensible guy until you started raving about Wexit!
Now you sound like the guy who spends a lot of time gazing into space while drool runs down his chin!
Alberta CANNOT HANDLE its PRE Wuhan debts - not without a cooperative Ottawa govt!
And Our idiot Boy AINT COOPERATIVE!
I do hope you do NOT THINK that Alberta got the natives to stop the blockades with logic or guile!
You must face facts - it WAS THE REST OF CANADA who pressured Our idiot Boy to stop screwing around
with native radicals and to START talking sense with the majority!
If Alberta FAILS to honour its debts then it will be MAULED ECONOMICALLY TILL IT DOES!
Left wing Yankee environmentalist DO NOT WANT Alberta oil!
Right wing Yankee lobbyists representing Yankee oil producers DO NOT WANT your oil!
What Yankees DO WANT is for Alberta to ANTE UP and pay its debts!
Screw around with what you OWE TO OTTAWA will ensure that Alberta gets handled like a FAVORITE TARGET OF LEECHS!
You HAVE PAY TO PLAY and you are playing WEASEL on debt INSTEAD!
Just as Cdns made it known that the Republic of Quebec WOULD NOT get ANY CONSIDERATION FROM CANADA!
SO TOO, the Republic of Alberta will be doing a WHOLE LOT OF COSTLY ASS KISSING if it is to survive more than a WEEK!
These are DEADLY TIMES and debt will strangle us all if you aint careful!
And DO RECALL that Our idiot Boy WOULD BE MUCH HAPPIER buying his oil from Venezuela or Mexico!
And putting the boots to the Alberta Wexidiots that he so DESPISES!
And when Our idiot Boy is GONE - then Alberta will want to kiss and make up!
So DO NOT burn your bridges !
You THINK you are in a mess now - but as my old boss used to mutter: "Never complain because FATE might hear
and choose to TEACH YOU A LESSON"!
The Alberta minnow is surrounded by SHARKS - and the economic pond is SHRINKING!
The garbage people in Ontariowe come up with in a lame attempt to keep hose transfer payments moving east.
Pretty sad rebuttal
Canada is to big to manage with so few people. It's going to split.
Well when you buy a can of sockeye salmon cheaper in Toronto then in Richmond where it was caught processed and canned , something is wrong .The media and the Feds have done a bang-up job in convincing folks in the East that the sun rises and sets on them.
The facts, on the other hand, say quite the opposite.
Perhaps if buddy had the understanding that the general fiscal health of Canada is dependent on the existence of a healthy, strong underlying economic sector(s) that are successful in generating as many taxable transactions as possible, they might have the basis for appreciating the domino effect of the value of such, particularly as it relates to small/med size businesses, the resulting employment and consequent taxation (GST, PST, Carbon Tax, Income Tax, Muni Tax, etc, etc, etc.)
The above, of course, is founded on these core sectors and for Canada, they are resourced based in the form of Forestry, Fisheries, Mining, Energy/oil & Gas, Agriculture, etc.. Spun-off from these core industries are the additional sectors, supporting services and products required not only to keep the industries operating, but also the support services/industries to support the employee base and their families.
Without the ability to churn as many of these transactions as possible, the revenues to gvt are impaired.
All one needs to do is look to the City of Vancouver announcing the possibility of filing for bankruptcy to appreciate that you can't run a service-based economy without some kind of core sector to support it.
That said, Canada is the equivalent of Vancouver without the combined resource sectors.
I remember the poor abused spouse working her fingers to the bone feeding her family while the husband with delusions of grandeur spread her labor around trying to gain favour . Sadly both are now destitute and the husband is still holding out his hand to the bread winner . You belong in Alberta Beer not holding out your hand .Canada is going to SPLIT says the deluded prognosticator!
I am reminded of the ANGRY WIFE who decides to go home to MOTHER and leave her ingrate hubby behind!
Its just TOO BAD that Mother has moved to a CONDO and does not have room for wife and kids!
And of course a DIVORCE is always IMPRACTICAL because it means usually means SELLING the family home
and then PAYING RENT FOR TWO less appealing residences and the ADDED EXPENSE is crippling!
Wexit will end up just like the unhappy couples I watched as a kid - in the end they will all kiss and make up!
Because the TEAM is stronger together!
Poor stupid Wexiteers want to present an image of strong, resilient, independent loggers and wheat farmers and oil field workers
being preyed upon by an eastern cabal of bankers and LIE-berals! They DO NOT wish to discuss the tech companies that operate in
the east! Wexiteers DO NOT want to discuss the weaknesses in their own IDIOT POSITION! Wexiteers DO NOT wish to discuss the
casual ease with which Yankee environmentalists stirred up radical natives to block Kinder Morgan and Northern Gateway pipelines
and blocked Keystone pipeline in the States! Nor do Wexiteers want to DISCUS the ongoing tariffs against their precious Cdn
softwood lumber exports!
Alberta HAD a $67 Billion dollar debt BEFORE Wuhan Virus hit! And that DID NOT INCLUDE the Alberta share of Ottawa debt!
GOD ONLY KNOWS what the Alberta debt will be AFTER Wuhan Virus subsides!
WHAT WE DO KNOW is that after Wuhan Virus subsides - Alberta will be surrounded by DESPERATE dead broke GOVTS
who will ALL REGARD Alberta oil revenue with the same sense of fair play and common decency
AS PIRATES CALCULATING THE LOOT that might be aboard a lightly armed and heavily loaded merchant ship!
Wexit is SUNK!
The feds do not appear to be shoring up any support in Alberta during this debacle . But this is a weird one , nobody knows what is , what it is about to nor what to do about it . And that crosses all sides of the political scientific and medical fields .Why does it keep coming up in surveys?
Interesting that Global is first on the list