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Originally Posted by Flame On
Political whims of the time? What one adjustment being sought in 10 years is a massively unstable system! With a single political party who has NOT been dipping in and out! In fact one that's been shown to be turning a blind eye to the industry, to it's advantage. Give it a rest.
As for your comment about "the big bad oil company", it is exactly my point. Your camp (sorry to generalize) cherry picks the emotional arguments. When the vested groups don't want any change, they make sure to mention the knock on effect to small Ma and Pa towns and little operators. Awwww.
But going the other way, when it's mentioned that the oil & gas industry has been a large contributor to a lot of suffering indirectly it's: "oh yeah the big bad oil companies".
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Oh yeah everybody's just suffering mercelessly at the hands of our evil capitalist oil company overlords. Give me a break. Between increased property prices, increased opportunity, and increased wages the common man has come out alright the past few years despite the inflation. It would be absurd to claim Alberta of 2002 was better off that Alberta of 2007. As for the homeless, how many of them are Calgarians that were indirectly put on the street by oil prosperity versus nomadic people from a multitude of cities in towns in Canada that migrate to wherever the gettings good for homeless people? Also look at the headline story in the paper the past few days. It seems that just improving efficiencies at the provincial government would recover the same amount of additional money anyway.