You just said... look at your post. You've just argued that smart businesses should assume that the current environment, particularly on the tax front, is unstable and susceptible to changing at the whim of some future government, and that it would be prudent to operate your business in such a way as assumes an average rate of tax. That is, allow for contingencies because the system is so volatile that the prospect of sudden change should be taken into account.
Predictability in the tax system is a fundamental goal of tax policy. It's tax policy 101. You've just effectively said that this doesn't really work in Alberta.
If that's what you have to do in order to do business here, if that's just a market reality in this Province that we tell the world we're comfortable with, no one will want to do business here at par with other jurisdictions. And they'll be right not to.
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