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Originally Posted by Roughneck
Pretty sure you can't require the federal government to do anything unless they agree and approve the question.
Otherwise why hold the referendum on equalization? Just have the referendum for: 'Give us $100B a year, every year, in perpetuity...also no federal income tax or GST in Alberta' and base the good-faith negotiations off of that?
But the bigger question I'd have for Kenney is where the #### was he when his party had a majority and had the power to change the equalization formula? How much leverage does this clown have at the table when they can just say 'how about we just go off the formula you guys used when you were a federal cabinet minister?'
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It's pretty obvious that politically its far more prudent to keep things status quo if you are in power at the Federal level.
Kenney doesn't work for that group any more so if elected here those previous reasons don't exist any longer.
I'm glad he is bringing it up as an election issue though because it is abundantly clear that Ottawa has ignored Alberta like a red headed step child. Regardless of who was in office.
It's time to play the game the ways other have over the years.