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Originally posted by fotze+Dec 26 2004, 03:18 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (fotze @ Dec 26 2004, 03:18 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Agamemnon@Dec 25 2004, 06:37 PM
As an Albertan, I think its crazy how attached we are to our 'right' to the oil and gas found in Alberta, w/ all its revenues being ours. Seems like we're the ones milking the super-sweet deal of full control over our resources. We're a 'have' province all right, we 'have' a ton of petroleum reserves to sell.
I guess it enriches us and makes this place pretty sweet, so I'm not complaining, hell I'm employed by Oil and Gas. I just don't think we deserve its entire benefits as much as we think we do. Whatever, keep bringing in the money, I'm staying!
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I think we do not benefit solely from the oil and gas, the feds do get a crapload of bucks from it.
Until we have no provincial governments then I think this is the best way. If we were to split everything even steven on the revenue side yet each government was allowed to spend willynilly then the province generating the revenue gets the shaft, Quebec and/or BC have more generaous social programs for their citizens why should we equally bear the burden of that. [/b][/quote]
Yeah, I guess fiscal responsibility is an 'assumed' that is apparently not true. Too bad some of those governments can't get their balance sheets in order! If this resource helps Newfoundland show a profit, I don't know why the Feds don't let them have it. The Fed's seem to be doing ok anyway, I think they're running surpluses easily (no?).