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Originally Posted by moon
Alberta could have just sat back collected its money and done nothing to think about the future, encourage more development/expansion in the industry and basically just focsued on the short term goals.
Sure the oil had to be there for those things to happen but Alberta could have had all that oil and not been as well off as they are now the oil only got them so far. They have done alot more to take advantage of their situation and make it better.
I am not sure why you think it is so trivial that rather than take the oil for granted, Alberta has looked at ways they can use this "advatage" if you want to call it to become even stronger.
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From an economic standpoint things have gone well and it didn't just happen out of the blue, I'll agree with that.
But I'm not going to fall for all the back-patting and rah-rahing and "we are great-ing". The way I see it, it would have been stupid to do anything else but take advantage of it, and puffing up my chest for
not doing something stupid seems kind of pointless.
It's like bragging that you didn't shoot yourself in the foot.