Kenney has made it clear now that if elected he will spur reform on the equalization issue by holding a referendum that (if passed by voters) would require the feds to sit down and re-negotiate things in good faith using the SC decision of the Quebec Secession Reference.
Get ready for an ad blitz after the new year to get their message out.
The UCP numbers:
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We have made a net contribution of $220 billion to the rest of Canada through our federal taxes over the past decade. We have been the country’s greatest job creation engine. We have moved tens of thousands of Canadians from poverty to prosperity.
Events this week have shown that Alberta is being taken advantage of.
Every year Alberta sends $20,000,000,000.00+ (20 BILLION) in transfers to other provinces through the federal government.
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I don't think he is any to pleased with Premier Legault either
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Quebec is the main beneficiary of Alberta-funded federal transfers, even though:
We have a huge deficit, while they have a big surplus;
Our economy is smaller than it was four years ago, while Quebec’s economy has been booming;
Our unemployment rate is higher than Quebec’s;
Quebec refuses to allow exploration for oil & gas; and
Quebec has lower tuition rates, daycare rates, and corporate taxes.
And would it be too much to ask provinces that benefit from Alberta’s resources to not stand in the way of us getting a fair price for those resources?
Instead, we are getting insults and blockades.
Justin Trudeau recently gave Quebec a veto over New Brunswick’s effort to revive the Energy East pipeline.
Quebec’s new Premier, Francois Legault, immediately exercised that veto by saying that “there is no social acceptability for dirty Alberta oil in Quebec.”
“Dirty Alberta oil?”
“Social respectability?”
Quebecers consume 360,000 barrels of gas and diesel every day, much of it imported. They benefit massively from wealth generated by Alberta energy. But the Quebec Premier condemns that energy as “dirty,” while saying he will block our effort to ship it to Eastern Canada and global markets?
This is how our generosity is repaid in our time of need?
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