[Mr.Coffee]

Furthermore and not discussed but I wonder if all the oil and gas companies CNRL has crushed due to the absolutely ruthless / borderline unethical way they run their business has put more people out of work than he’s hired and “supported” (lol).

Same for many other companies like Tourmaline. All these acquisitions and so many out of work with no hiring on the horizon. Anyone who has interacted on the business end of his companies knows what I’m talking about and it isn’t pretty. CNRL purposefully drives people out of business and people out of work for the exclusive benefit of CNRL shareholders to come in and buy up for pennies on the dollar. Now this is all “fair” (eye raising……) and “just business” (sure……..with real world consequences but okay), and there’s not much most competition can do about it. It’s fine but for the juxtaposition of the avoidance of tax. This is resource extraction via leases to harvest oil and gas and profit from mainly Crown (province) held resources that then the main beneficiary flies out of country to avoid tax and then asks the population he’s screwing to pay for his luxury palace. Great guy, real classy. His actions and companies are like the antithesis of what the Flames purport to stand for.

Then to say “well you go do it then” is stupidity of the highest order. Sure why don’t you just start a bank? You can’t because he’s created a monster company that evades and minimizes liability to the nth degree or sues people into oblivion with high priced law firms or just generally does whatever the #### he wants. Coles notes: they’ve gotten too big. But yeah, capitalism or something. Capitalism, right up until you want to make $100MM in franchise value for doing really not much, paying for the freight that you are demanding must be paid so you can enable more revenue streams to profit even more off of.

So stupid when you think about it.