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Old 09-20-2005, 01:06 PM   #88
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I wonder how much David Swann's constituents appreciate being told they are greedy?

Why the Libs dont get many votes in Alberta

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Tue, September 20, 2005

EDITORIAL: Share, or else!

In just two short sentences, Calgary Liberal MLA David Swann has demonstrated why the Alberta Liberals will never form the government in our lifetime and reminded us exactly why we don't believe the federal Liberals when they deny there's another national energy program in the works.

Swann was reacting last week to the poll published in the Globe and Mail - the second one of its kind this month from Canada's unofficial "Get Alberta!" newspaper - suggesting that 61% of Canadians outside of Alberta believe that "Alberta should share its budget surplus with other provinces hurt by higher energy costs."

Premier Ralph Klein reacted to the poll with his usual, 'Yeah, you and what army?' bravado, declaring, "It's not in the cards." But Swann declared that Albertans just aren't generous enough. "Alberta needs to step up and share," said Swann. "The feds will do what they need to do in the interests of Canada - they don't need to apologize for that."

Wow. It's nice to see Swann so willing to commit his party to another eternity on the backbenches of the Alberta legislature with his willingness to sell out our province to the federal Liberals like that.

As has been pointed out by numerous columnists and commentators lately, Alberta shares plenty with the rest of Canada - to the tune of about $2,400 per person or about $10 billion to $12 billion per year. For a family of four in Alberta, that's nearly $10,000 per year paid in taxes that leaves this province to subsidize government services for people in have-not provinces.

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