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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
But in a way the oil is Canada's as a whole. Without the oil in this province there would be no outgoing transfer payment issues, but another province would have the oil, and we'd be the ones begging for transfer payments. If Alberta's eastern border was 50km west or southern border a couple hundread kms south, this province would likely be as poor or poorer than Quebec.
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I'm really not sure what map of Alberta your using, but I'm not seeing any way we could move the province 50-200km in any direction and end up poorer than Quebec as you put it.
