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Originally Posted by CrusaderPi
In case anyone is wondering Alberta contributed roughly 11.1 billion to the equalization pool out of a total of 11.5 billion in 2006. This year Alberta will be handing over 14 billion (ish) for which we will see no benefit.
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Can I see your reference for that? Because I have Ontario contributing $5billion. Which would be *AT LEAST* 10x what you are suggesting here.
As for those that espouse Albertan separation, I think those along with the separatists in Quebec should all be locked up for treason. I, as someone in Ontario, am *HAPPY* that we are giving $5B and think we should be giving a hell of a lot more for health care and education to the folks back home in the Maritimes. I hear about the conditions that the schools are in and how bad health care is getting, especially in the rural regions and I think, how can *I*, as a Canadian want my own countrymen to not have access to health care and education. But apparently some Albertans are a different sort. Instead of helping out other Canadians they talk about separation so they don't have to lend a hand.
I take it that when the Canadian junior teams win their gold medals, you don't watch? Or do you hate the country so much that you want to leave it, yet still cheer the national hockey team? When the Olympics are on, you cheer only the Alberta born atheletes and boo the Canadian ones? I don't get how being part of one of the greatest countries on the planet makes people of provinces to the east and to the west want to rip it to shreds.