Exactly; and every dollar of less capital spent here is a dollar less in a local company that does the actual work.
That's why capital investment vs. the rest of the world is such an indisputable fact. Cuts through the politics and BS, and just illustrates the point perfectly about the devastating impact the NDP and Liberals have had.
If the NDP took a hard line 4 years ago when they took office and really pushed getting a pipeline built, we wouldn't be at the point we are now, where the 4-5 export pipes in the works then are all now either dead or significantly delayed. I don't think most people still supporting NDP know how many billions of tax dollars have been lost as a result. Look at Brent or Mayan pricing. Oil @ tidewater would be a beautiful thing for our province, hurts thinking about what a couple bad political parties could do in such a short period of time. Heathcare, unions, infrastructure, the environment all would have been much better off if another party had won, since we'd actually have money to spend on such programs.
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