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Originally Posted by StickMan

The carbon tax and fuel standard tax etc. increases the cost of fuel and thus food/housing and pretty much everything that gets transported, and it does nothing to prevent global emissions.

The UCP cut the fuel tax in Alberta and consumers were gouged by the industry, but you’re saying taxes are the reason why prices are so high?

First 2 sources that show up on Google regarding recent government hiring:

Pandemic-hiring-boom-federal-government-added-nearly-20000-workers-in-a-single-year

Canada’s ‘roaring’ recovery is not as robust as it seems

"Much of Canada’s post-pandemic jobs recovery—indeed, nearly 85 percent since February 2020—has actually been concentrated in the public sector."

Where does any of this back up your claim that unemployment is only low because of potentially unsustainable public sector jobs?

Did you think putting forward an article that shows public sector jobs, which includes public healthcare workers, increased during a pandemic was going to be a convincing enough argument on its own?

Could you imagine how prosperous Canada would be if we had pipelines running east to west and no restrictions on getting our product to world markets? How is the current situation not crippled? We pretty much have one customer south of the border and our eastern provinces import dictator oil. Like what kind of question is that? We have c48 and c69 preventing tankers and pipelines and really any large projects (has there been any large projects of any kind approved since? Investment in Canada has dried up under Trudeau).

I’m still waiting for you to explain how the industry is crippled, or at least elaborate on how you define the word crippled. You yourself said the industry was “saving us”, how is that possible if it is crippled?