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Originally Posted by DiracSpike
I'm just confused by this dude. It's not like the guy came in under the cover of darkness and made his money and got out.
-He's paid taxes on all the money he's made to this point
-He grew a company from nothing to a corporation that has a 42B dollar market cap that employs thousands of people. Thats corporate tax plus a bunch of people paying income tax.
-Just because he's made his money here does that mean he's never ever allowed to leave for any reason? What right is it of yours to say he shouldnt move for x reason or paying x more in income tax shouldn't matter.
-CNRL is a corporation, its not his personal lemonade stand where all profits just roll tax free to Edwards.
-Alberta is inarguably a better place for having had him live here, if he wants to sip tea in London I'm not gonna begrudge him for it. He hasn't abandoned the Province in any meaningful sense anyway
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If he left and didn't make a peep about it and just moved like any other person I wouldn't have an issue with. But since "sources" are specifically citing tax reasons and his company specifically blamed the corporate tax increase for layoffs when this all started to get bad, yeah, it's kinda ####ty that he cares about saving a tiny portion of his outrageously high income more than having that portion of his income helping his ailing home.
If he comes out and says this has nothing to do with the taxes then I have no issue with the guy.