Looking at his points:
1) I'm not sure that would do a whole lot, but OK.
2)In 2015 We collected about $2.7 Billion. Is cutting that in half going to be that big an incentive, once divided up between all companies?
3)Sounds decent enough
4)I think that mostly happens anyway. From what I understand most royalties aren't paid for a few years, especially the oilsands.
5)oh, wait. That's it.
Frankly it sounds like he isn't all that well educated on the current system, and his ideas are mediocre at best. Basically reduce industry costs. That's still not going to boost the price of oil to make a difference. I actually expected a lot more out of him. Oh, and all his suggestions would further decimate provincial coffers. I didn't see him bring up a PST...maybe his next letter will be about sticking it to the unions...
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