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Originally Posted by BoLevi
If they try to impose such a tax, there will be massive costs on the country in terms of federal cohesion. It will send Canada down a nasty, fragmented path. That will almost certainly get exacerbated because it would be easy to see how the feds would not treat every province's energy the same.
In other words the feds imposing an export tax on oil (or energy in general), would be a case of the medicine being far worse than the disease.
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What is your concern with the cost in federal cohesion? What even is that?
Alberta gets angry, Quebec gets appeased, how would the day after export tariffs look different for federal cohesion than before?
But more importantly, why should we care? You spend every other post whining about the fragmented nature of confederation, now claim it’s too precious to put under strain. Which is it?