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Originally Posted by jammies
Obviously it's easier to be against something than to come up with a detailed plan as to how to fix it. I have some ideas, but is this really the venue for such a discussion? My point is more along the way that not all is as well in this country as the learned elders think it is.
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I think it's fair that protesters offer more than complaints, otherwise it's meaningless whining.
It's like saying the minimum wage should be $20 (to use an example), or saying that the oilsands shouldn't be developed.
You can't say that minimum wage should be $20 an hour if you can't present a plan that would make it practical without destroying small business or bankrupting governments. Salaries don't rise in isolation obviously.
Similarly, you can't say 'Don't develop the oilsands' to Albertans until/unless you can explain how you'll replace the billions of dollars pumping into the Alberta economy (and Treasury) associated with the development of those resources. "Leave it in ground and forego the economic benefits of that resource" doesn't cut it somehow.
Problems are easy to identify. Answers are what we require.