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Old 09-14-2016, 11:31 AM   #2866
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Originally Posted by Flash Walken View Post
Why should Trudeau spend political capital to get a pipeline done?

What is his incentive to include Alberta at the expense of Ontario or Quebec or BC?

Lots of talk in this thread as if building pipelines across Canada is a no-brainer for the rest of the country but I haven't exactly been wowed with any of the logic or reasoning behind it other than Alberta needs pipelines to help stave off economic turmoil which is of course a legitimate reason, but mostly for Albertans.
In 2015 the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, BC, and NFLD contributed 15 billion in transfer payments to the rest of Canada. That money is essentially all resource dollars to benefit all of Canada.

To say that the rest of Canada doesn't get benefit from the risk they take is laughable.
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