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Originally Posted by ranchlandsselling
I remember seeing a presentation by Todd Hirsch of ATB. He talked about the reciprocal side of transfer payments that a lot of Albertan's forget or never think of. There were no real numbers or statistical analysis to support/refute what would be fair or not. But he did explain that over the past few decades Alberta has benefited from Net inter provincial migration. These migrating individuals and families all were educated elsewhere at the cost of tax payers and governments at which point they came to Alberta as a highly educated young workforce. Once here they have primarily been a net benefit to the Alberta economy yet were "developed" elsewhere at a cost to another province/government.
Was interesting.
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So what? If Alberta was a separate country we would still receive this benefit (just like we benefit from having doctors and engineers educated in Iran and Nigeria) without the cost. It's a false "benefit" of federation. Those people would still come here for economic reasons.
Separatism is the answer my friends. The sooner we wake up to that the better.
