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But maybe to short-circuit this diversion...

Let's agree that I'm not suggesting corporations should have no profits and that you're not suggesting we should have no teachers, nurses etc.

We are disagreeing on where each of us feel's the 'optimum' point of balance between corporate profits and the physical and social infrastructure for alberta citizens should be.

My opinion is that in the last boom corporate profits received too much of the rent taken and AB citizens too little. I'd trade truck nuts for better health-care and cleaner environment next time.

And to attempt to re-rail this 'Alberta Oil discussion thread'. My point was that, speaking as someone inside the capital deployment side of an E&P firm, it's not my experience that the royalty review is impacting capital spending in the current environment.