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Originally Posted by Derek Sutton

WTF are you talking about? A vast majority of the oil patch is made up of numerous small businesses in varying forms. And for those who are simply employees, well they aren't paid buy tax dollars and representing Albertans on a national stage. You really have no clue. It should goes with out saying that the Minister of Energy should have some sort of energy background.

Good point made in the other thread:

Originally Posted by para transit fellow

truthfully, there hasn't been an energy minister with an energy background for decades... maybe not since the Getty cabinet. Some didn't even have much in the way of management experience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ster_of_Energy

But don't let facts get in the way of your blind hatred of the government.

And my point of the Alberta O&G patch being made up of companies led by people who can't control massive cost run ups in the good times and massive cuts in the bad still stands. How can you put this all on the first time government and nothing on the shoulders of the leaders of the Alberta O&G industry?