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Originally posted by Hakan@Sep 17 2005, 10:13 AM
The reason those oil royalties are 'yours' is because of some privy council over in England decided to screw the Federal government 100 years ago for trying to have more sovereignty and rights for the people. That oil belongs to all Canadians IMO.
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Shortsighted argument.
The oil is ours because we are constitutionally entitled to it. Last I checked, England didnt decide that the 1982 Constitution was right for us, Canada did.
Of course, Alberta already shares more than it receives in royalties with the rest of Canada, so I can very easily state that the entirety of our oil royalties are being shared with all Canadians.
However, along the same lines, we'll take our share of other provinces forestry, mining, fishery, etc resource revenues, retroactive to the past 60 years or so, with interest.
Didnt think so either.