^ good post but I wish at the last paragraph along the lines of hard work and resilient yadda yadda yadda he added incredibly lucky that we were bestowed with a highly valuable natural resource that's economic benefits should not be squandered.
Let's face it, Albertans are more lucky than hard working. Not to say people here are not hard working, but it's mostly luck. Slam away, but one of the worst qualities of Albertans is all the back patting we do, when, especially at times like this- we really have squandered most of our good fortune.
But the gist of that article is bang on, the PC's screwed this up for so many years. Not much of what's going on really should be attributed to the NDP government. I was talking to some folks today at the office (I work at a producer), ever single one of us agreed that at the end of the day, it's price that is driving this downturn. Not royalties, not regulations, not any of the other "uncertainty" stuff... price. Let's not forget how badly the PC's and their corrupt, moronic, selfish, arrogant ways really drove us into this situation.
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