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Originally Posted by AR_Six
The difference is that we fell ass-backwards into it (or in my case moved here in order to take advantage of an area blessed with such resources) and they did not. Isn't your argument equally applicable to, say, inherited wealth? I suppose the analogy fails in that one does not have the alternative to take direct advantage of someone else's inherited wealth by moving to their province.
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Well, there was time and effort involved with actually figuring out how to produce Albertas resources. It's not like the Beverley Hillbillies shooting a gopher and oil sprays out, the WCSB is a fairly tricky region to produce economically and the efforts of those who developed the technologies should be recognized.
Pretty sure Quebec didn't do anything to "earn" their hydro power either.