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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
I dunno, apples to oranges comparisons have validity when you're running a fruit stand.
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Originally Posted by edslunch
Not quite the same, but even if they collected $5B from sales or other tax over the past 20 years we could have $150B saved
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The thing is Norway is a sovereign nation and can have a sovereign fund. I think that Alberta is in a completely different scenario because if we had a fund that was say $150B other provinces would definitely want a piece, as well as the federal government. There is no guarantee that were we to build such a fund that it would just sit there untouched by these outside forces. I don't think that we should spend every last dime, but the comparison of a province to an independent country is just not applicable IMO.