While the NDP has stated that they're holding off on changing the royalty structure for 16 months, talking to a couple of friends of mine, that delay doesn't do anything but extend the uncertainty by the patch. 16 months means relatively little except that the bigger companies are going to hold off on making any kind of bold moves Mac-T style because they don't know what 16 months would bring.
The smarter move by the NDP would have been to extend the current structure until Oil reach a minimum price and stayed over that mark for a 6 month period.
It was a tepid extension.
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