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Originally Posted by John Doe
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What do you think those figures will look like for 2016? The prosperity of this province - private and public - has been underpinned by oil for a long time. Now there's far less money from that source. How to we adapt? And not for a year or two - how do we balance the provincial budget with a fraction of the royalty revenues we enjoyed in the past?
Frankly, I'd just like public sector employees in this province to recognize that their lifestyles are heavily subsidized by oil revenue, even if they don't work directly in the industry. I have a teacher friend who routinely demonizes the oil industry to her kids (and presumably, to her students as well). It's terrible for the environment, the companies are evil, etc. One of her tirades was accompanied by complaints about how little teachers make, and came only weeks before she jetted off with her kids to Hawaii for vacation. The hypocrisies compounded on hypocrisies left me speechless.